Vaccine safety is a myth created by bad actors.
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created by bad actors, and repeated (mostly innocently, though rather stupidly) by nearly everyone else.
Understanding that the system is not actually designed to protect your children seems to be really hard for most people to grasp.
But we would hear about this more
But someone would have told me
But the NYT would have covered it
But my doctor is nice
But "everyone knows"...
Very very few doctors know anything at all about vaccinology.
Your first paragraph goes for all shallow modern “knowledge”.
The illusion of “common knowledge” reinforces the programming as “fact” even though nobody digs into it.
Looking back it is shocking how well this tactic works. Just getting everyone to repeat bullshit gives it the ultimate aura of credibility.
“Certainly everybody couldn’t be wrong!?” really works.