Via The Blue State Conservative
There was a time when the Surgeon General could come out, despite the strenuous objections of the tobacco lobbyists, and boldly have printed on every package of cigarettes that smoking is bad for one’s health, and people believed it and, mostly, listened to it. When the Salk polio vaccine came out in the late 1950s, people were told it was safe, and everyone believed it. The same for flu shots and tetanus shots. Our health authorities were at the frontline of the introduction of penicillin into clinical use, the promotion of hygiene and sanitation as protection against diseases, and the importance of a good diet to health.
This isn’t to say that Americans are gullible fools, especially regarding anything that has the government as its backer. But, while we take everything that comes out of our elected officials’ mouths with a healthy dose of skepticism, we were taught at our mother’s knee to trust our health care experts implicitly. After all, they were scientists and doctors and besides taking the Hippocratic oath, everyone knew they could be trusted without reserve because they were SCIENTISTS, and as we learned at our third-grade teacher’s knee, no other discipline better embodies objective truth.
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