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Originally Posted by Azure
Stock price is not everything, and you know that. Some companies have overvalued stock, some have undervalued, even relative to their profits.
Prior to 2020, most people who post in this thread would have agreed that big pharma is not exactly the most trustworthy industry, and that they will 100% manipulate studies & research, lobby the government or pull all kinds of shenanigans to get their product sold. I mean they've been fined as a collective industry how many billions?
But when COVID hit, all that went out the window, and everyone all of a sudden thought Pfizer or Moderna were going to save us all, and don't you dare question anything they say.
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This didn’t happen,
There was significant scrutiny on the vaccines. Non experts probably did more research into the Covid vaccine then any other medical intervention in the history of medicine. The trust the science mantra came about precisely because people have a poor ability to read scientific research and were drawing all sorts of incorrect conclusions from statistics.
How many people when prescribed anti-biotics go and look at the effectiveness research. Very few they take what their doctor prescribed. Or statins, how many people know the effectiveness of them? Then compare that to people who knew the effectiveness of the Covid vaccine and could reasonably or unreasonably discuss if it prevented transmission or not.
It’s because people misused statistics and there was such a negative push against the vaccine unlike any other health intervention we have used that there became a strong and simple public health message around effectiveness.
You have causality backwards.