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1950 - "smoking reduces stress and improves longevity"

1970 - "smoking is harmful"

Checkmate, scientists!

In all seriousness, we don't need a vast conspiracy for this. It's called being wrong and changing your mind, we do it all the fucking time.

Nobody expects what people said about Tuberculosis in 1920 to be 100% accurate today. But for some reason, people expect what was said about Covid in the beginning to ALWAYS be accurate. Why would that be the case? It's a novel disease. Yeah duh our understanding is going to change.




You're comparing decades of science that results in different conclusions, to a 13 day period?

And don't you think it's smart to not make definitive statements if you don't really know?

This is all basic public relations 101.


Yes, because within a 13 day period of course your understanding can change.

I agree their PR could have been a little better. But, it was also not that bad all things considered. The thing is conspiracy theorists would've rejected any vaccine, and there's nothing anybody could have done about that. Ultimately the CDC can't make stupid people unstupid.




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