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RaleyField on March 10, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Java Runtime updater now installs ask.com toolbar ...

> Anti-vaccine movement comes from declining levels of trust in authorities.

I'll just leave this relevant episode of [Last Week Tonight](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQZ2UeOTO3I). While anti-vaxxers are clearly wrong let's acknowledge that health care, at least in the US, has been partially corrupted.

The thought that medical workers might be offering unsound advice in this one area when it's known they behaved unethically in that other area suddenly does not appear so unreasonable.

TeMPOraL on March 10, 2015 [–]

I see your John Oliver and raise you Yvain[0] - a doctor's description of how it actually works. Spoiler: it's more subtle and much worse.

[0] - http://slatestarcodex.com/2015/02/17/pharma-virumque/

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