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How Americans responded in 1955 when the invention of the polio vaccine was announced (feddit.org)
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[–] [email protected] 2 points 22 hours ago

There are many influences. One is pure resentment of elites as know-it-alls which propagandists amplify. A bit of Dunning–Kruger effect at the same time as people without specialized training can't even comprehend what they don't know. Another is how difficult it is to think probabilistically so that people can't easily appreciate risk. And as more and more people proclaim conspiracy theories as truth there is peer pressure to confirm.