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Americans are losing trust in almost every major profession, with doctors and police taking the biggest hits
Blaze News ^ | FEBRUARY 01, 2024 | ANDREW CHAPADOS

Posted on 02/01/2024 5:04:51 PM PST by george76

Americans have lost trust in some of the most important roles in a society, including those in the medical industry, teaching, and especially positions of institutional power.

A Gallup poll in Honesty and Ethics conducted at the end of 2023 asked 800 respondents to rate the ethical standards of and their overall trust in a series of professions.

"How you would rate the honesty and ethical standards of people in these different fields?" the survey asked. In terms of "very high" trust, all professions but one took a hit compared to previous years.

The poll measured the downward trends dating back to 2019, showing that medical doctors, pharmacists, bankers, and journalists have lost the most trust.

Medical doctors went from 65% in 2019 down to 56% in 2023, while pharmacists dropped from 64% to 55%.

Bankers' and journalists' ethics decreased in the public eye from 28% in 2019 to 19% in 2023, as well.

Chiropractors, clergy, and business executives took eight-point hits in the survey, tied for the second-highest decreases.

Dentists (-2), stockbrokers (-2), insurance people (-1), and car salespeople (-1) fared among the best on the survey over the same period of time.

However, dentists were the only profession of the top gainers that did not already have an abysmal rating for the "very high" trust category.

Dentists had 59%, while insurance salesman and stockbrokers were trusted at a rate of just 12%. Car salespeople were near the bottom at only 8%.

Completely bottoming out on the list in terms of high levels of trust were senators, at just 8%, and members of Congress, who were rated as having "very high" ethical standards by just 6% of respondents.

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Just 22% of Republicans rated college teachers highly, while nearly two-thirds of Democrats did at 62%. As well, Democrats rated journalists more favorably than Republicans by more than four times; 32% to 7%, respectively.

The numbers flipped, however, for police officers, where 55% of Republicans rated them highly, with 37% of Democrats agreeing.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: congress; doctors; lockdowns; mandates; masks; police; policemen; poll; professions; senators
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To: george76

“...and especially positions of institutional power.”

You mean like Mother Government in all her glory? *SNORT*

Now THAT’S a shocker! ;)


21 posted on 02/01/2024 5:44:42 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set. )
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To: RedMonqey
said, "We are rushing heading into Weimar Republic like situation."

Georges Sorel(1847-1922) came up with the concept Science is a Myth and Myth drives civilization.
Also came up with the concept of bundle the workers owned corporations together:
He called: Fascists-syndicalist predecessor of fascism
Also helped Mussolini come to power.
22 posted on 02/01/2024 5:45:00 PM PST by Steve Van Doorn
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To: Parley Baer

Not my doctors...they are all old school!😀


23 posted on 02/01/2024 5:45:32 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: Parley Baer

the medical profession deserves it. They used their positions as unimpeachable sources to advance a bald face, gaslighting, government sponsored LIE.


24 posted on 02/01/2024 5:51:12 PM PST by Samurai_Jack (This is not about hypocrisy, this is about hierarchy!)
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To: george76

IMO, multiple factors have dragged the medical profession into disrepute...

1. Covid pandemic. Many doctors mindlessly spouted untruths not only about the safety and efficacy of the vaxxes but also on topics such as natural immunity, masking, herd immunity etc. People don’t have amnesia. They remember that doctors, with great confidence and certainty, told them things that turned out to be untrue.

2. Transgenderism. People hear about the medical establishment going all in this madness, supporting child mutilation with sex changes etc.

3. Abortion. People see young doctors clamoring in the media for abortion, protesting Dobbs etc., and question... hey, do these people want to save lives or end them?


25 posted on 02/01/2024 5:51:30 PM PST by irishjuggler
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To: Angelino97

26 posted on 02/01/2024 5:54:43 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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To: irishjuggler

bttt


27 posted on 02/01/2024 5:56:03 PM PST by linMcHlp
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To: george76

Doctors gave us a fake pandemic and lockdowns.

Police enforced the lockdowns, sometimes to a ridiculous degree.

No surprise they lost respect.


28 posted on 02/01/2024 5:59:08 PM PST by Disambiguator
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To: cyclotic
While they are good for acute problems and emergencies, they have no interest in healing, rather they just want you coming back and paying more.

Doctors are mostly hospital employees now. Obama (don't) Care wiped out the ones that were still independent.

The hospitals are multi-state conglomerates.

You best health care will come if you find a concierge doctor. They get paid to keep you healthy so you do not need to come in. Incentiving health, what a concept!

29 posted on 02/01/2024 6:01:06 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear ( In a quaint alleyway, they graciously signaled for a vehicle on the main road to lead the way. )
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To: george76

All by design.


30 posted on 02/01/2024 6:01:50 PM PST by algore
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To: Jane Long

Certainly not the last either


31 posted on 02/01/2024 6:02:55 PM PST by algore
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To: george76
Harvard teaching hospital to retract papers by top researchers following data falsification probe
32 posted on 02/01/2024 6:28:56 PM PST by T Ruth (Mohammedanism shall be destroyed.)
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To: george76

Ya think?


33 posted on 02/01/2024 6:30:19 PM PST by Chgogal (Welcome to Fuhrer Biden's Weaponized Fascist Banana Republic! It's the road to he)
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To: george76
Doctors deserve the hit, but the reason they were such linguini-spines during the Covid plandemic is that most of them are not independent anymore, but are now just salarymen for some huge corporation run by globalist liberals.

The ones who piped up about the biological weapons, i.e., Covid and the mRNA vaccine, were severely punished, with loss of job, license, board certification.

In other words they were nuked for telling the truth.

So the public needs to defend the autonomy of their doctors going forward, keeping them free, AS MUCH AS the doctors need to defend the patients from corporate medicine, the government, the globalists, and creeps like Bill Gates, Schwab, Fauci, Musk, and Meta Boy.

We are now seeing traditional, sacrosanct safeguards like the Biological Weapons Convention and the Nuremburg Code being completely disregarded by our government and the globalists and Pharma.

If people don't protect the autonomy of doctors and lawyers to advocate for them, then we will see the horrendous abuses to individuals that we are witnessing with lawfare and complete disregard for justice, as well as complete negation of our rights as patients and health-care consumers.

And any rights we don't jealously guard, the other side will gladly continue to appropriate away from us, as they are doing right now !!

34 posted on 02/01/2024 7:14:57 PM PST by caddie
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To: george76

The only person I trust is myself and most of the time I question that.


35 posted on 02/01/2024 7:41:36 PM PST by Newtoidaho (All I ask of living is to have no chains on me.)
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To: Angelino97

What ethnicity is the woman depicted to be?


36 posted on 02/01/2024 7:47:25 PM PST by nwrep
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To: george76

I wonder why the police took a hit. I can understand the DOJ, but regular police seem like victims to me. They can’t do too much or they will get dinged by some social justice organization or politician.


37 posted on 02/01/2024 7:54:02 PM PST by KittyKares
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To: george76

Maybe if you all hadn’t lied to us you wouldn’t have this problem.

L


38 posted on 02/01/2024 8:07:09 PM PST by Lurker ( Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Reverend Wright

https://www.time4learning.com/homeschool/homeschoolstatistics.shtml


39 posted on 02/01/2024 8:18:31 PM PST by jdege
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To: bigbob

When doctors tell me women have penises, yeah...I lose all trust in “doctors”! Sorry, but my degree was in Biology back when there were 9 planets, 2 sexes and even lay people understood human plumbing...


40 posted on 02/01/2024 8:22:10 PM PST by Mr Rogers (We're a nation of feelings, not thoughts.)
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