Skepticism of medical authorities is, at least in terms of vaccine refusal, becoming worse and worse. I think this is a bad thing, and have previously commended Ari Schulman’s essay on the politics of medical denialism to help understand why this is the case. In that essay, he mentions that “Vaccines also serve as a proxy for concerns about the nature of Western medicine—its reductiveness, its invasiveness, its emphasis on disease over health, the influence of pharmaceutical corporations in crafting therapeutic techniques”, and I want to highlight the lattermost issue (that is, financial conflicts of interest) there.
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