When H5N1 avian influenza started spreading among dairy cattle across the U.S. this year, regulators warned against consuming unpasteurized milk. What happened? Raw milk sales went up.

Distributors of this unsafe-for-human-consumption product deny H5N1—which has the potential to sicken millions of people—is a danger. Dairy farmers decline to allow disease detectives onto their properties.

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    3 months ago

    “It not that people are stupid or ignorant or that they don’t know what the science is,” he said. “They’re motivated to reject it on the basis of partisanship, their political ideology, their religion, their cultural values.”

    I wonder why he doesn’t figure “The government has provided misinformation recently on health topics” into his list of reasons people don’t trust government health information.

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      3 months ago

      I’m pretty sure rejecting facts based on partisanship, political ideology, religion, of cultural values can easily qualify you for being stupid.

      On the other hand, the us has done idiotic things to tarnish it’s reputation in the past.

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        3 months ago

        It absolutely does. If you’re rejecting basic, verifiable scientific facts based on your politics or religion, you’re fucking stupid.

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      They should have their fucking farms shut down until they comply with the FDA. Telling them they can’t investigate on their farms then you lose all farm subsidies.

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        3 months ago

        Why did you post this as a reply to my comment? It doesn’t seem to actually respond to anything I said.