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Comment by stevefrench93

"Trust the Science" is the product of well funded social scientists who leveraged focus groups to determine the phrase effectively targeted people who already align themselves with the myriad of establishment pitch men - Neil Degrasse Tyson, Bill Nye, Trevor Noah, et al. Same as (ironically) "My body, my choice."

"Trust the Science" is merely a proxy for "Believe in and defend the Neoliberal agenda against scientific criticism".

If you're still uncritical of it, you might want to start reading the science.

https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10654-021-00808-7

"At the country-level, there appears to be no discernable relationship between percentage of population fully vaccinated and new COVID-19 cases..."

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