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CMV: The HIDDEN reason behind all the anti science, anti mask, anti vaxx and fake news rhetoric in the US is due to the devaluing of education and educated people.

Firstly I’m not talking about the defunding of education across the US and how some places are even refusing to teach evolution and other core concepts even though that’s a major issue, I’m more talking about the lack of respect shown to people in professions who spent the vast majority of their young lives studying and learning this specific profession, who sacrificed on social lives and other opportunities to pursue their dream jobs.

It’s easy to yell fake news at people when you have no fkn clue the work that goes into journalism and reporting and when you think that people on their computers in their basement making up conspiracy theories have the same level of responsibility and integrity as people working for the most prestigious and respected media outlets in the world, I challenge you to send your favourite BS conspiracy article to an accomplished esteemed editor and see how real fact checking and sourcing takes place.

It’s easy to claim vaccines are bad and masks are bad and science is bad when you haven’t been bothered to open a science textbook since elementary school and you’re getting all your information from some dude recording videos sitting at his backyard patio spewing nonsense with 0 Evidence or scientific findings. I challenge you to present these findings to any high school teacher as a legitimate research paper, you’d have failed miserably because you don’t understand the referencing and sourcing and indexing and actual scientific methods that are being used to discover and present these findings. And forget about your “research” being university or professional level either.

Let’s stop pretending that we know what’s best about everything and listen to the people who have dedicated their lives to these professions and trust their opinions, even over your own.
gpt
The problem with your argument is that common people are regularly screwed over by the "experts," either because the experts themselves were ignorant or because these experts were acting maliciously.

The US war in Iraq was started by warmongers who misrepresented the truth to the ignorant public in order to achieve their goal of invasion. GMO seeds were pushed on farmers with promises of being better, but IP laws mean that saving seeds is illegal, and now these farmers are serfs for seed and chemical companies. People were told that masks were not necessary before they were told to wear masks, and there is some evidence that "experts" knew that masks would help even as they told people not to wear them. Healthy skepticism by common people of experts is very, very important to prevent technocratic abuse of power.