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Originally Posted by Damien
The worst thing about it is that anti-vax sentiment is really hard to stop once you've set it running. If you've undermined faith not only in the vaccines but by extension the health experts who've developed, tested and recommended them then you can't easily fix it. A reassuring statement from your health regulator won't do anything because these are the same people whose advice and findings you've already told people to dismiss. As with all conspiratory thinking the very people best placed to debunk people's concerns and theories are part of the problem. Macron has undermined the very institutions he is going to later depend on to encourage an already vaccine sceptical public to take up the jab. 
It's the same problem as MMR. One dodgy study undermined faith in vaccines for over a decade purely because its findings were promoted by papers like the Daily Mail and Private Eye who portrayed the efforts of regulators and the NHS to ally fears as part of an establishment stitch-up. |
It's because it's the sort of new/report that people want to believe. They want to believe that someone, somewhere is doing something dodgy and it then takes the emphasis off themselves.