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Few Firm Beliefs and Low Trust: Americans Not Sure What’s True in Age of Health Misinformation
KFF Health News ^ | AUGUST 22, 2023 | Darius Tahir

Posted on 08/28/2023 2:37:55 PM PDT by fwdude

Around 3 in 10 Americans still believe ivermectin is an effective treatment for covid. What’s more, few place significant trust in any form of news media or official institution to accurately convey information about health topics, from covid treatments and vaccines to reproductive health issues, a new poll from KFF shows.

The confusion about what’s true — and who’s telling the truth — is of critical importance to public health, experts in political science said. “Misinformation leads to lives being lost and health problems not being resolved,” Bob Blendon, a professor emeritus of public health at Harvard, said in an interview. Blendon was not associated with the survey.

Such misinformed beliefs are strongly held by only a sliver of the population, according to a KFF poll out today. Nearly a third of the 2,007 respondents said the dewormer ivermectin was definitely or probably an effective treatment for Covid-19. (It’s not: Numerous randomized controlled trials have found otherwise.) A mere 22% thought ivermectin was definitely ineffective.

(Excerpt) Read more at kffhealthnews.org ...


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They're mad because we refuse to believe the propaganda.

Tough!!

1 posted on 08/28/2023 2:37:55 PM PDT by fwdude
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“More than a third of respondents also thought using birth control such as intrauterine devices made it harder for most women to get pregnant once they stopped.”

Actually true. A short bit of research pulled that verifiable fact up.

New studies link IUDs, infertility; say copper devices safer
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12313655/#:~:text=PIP%3A%202%20studies%20sponsored%20by,for%20both%20types%20of%20IUDs.


2 posted on 08/28/2023 2:39:47 PM PDT by fwdude (.)
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All of the institutions have committed suicide. I believe none of them. They are liars and criminals. All of them.


3 posted on 08/28/2023 2:39:56 PM PDT by ClearCase_guy (They say "Our Democracy" but they mean Cosa Nostra.)
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It’s jaw dropping how many “medical” institutions now insist that a man can really “become a woman.”


4 posted on 08/28/2023 2:43:34 PM PDT by fwdude (.)
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"Around 3 in 10 Americans still believe ivermectin is an effective treatment for covid. "

The other 7 are sheep living in ignorance.

5 posted on 08/28/2023 2:46:33 PM PDT by G Larry (It is RACIST to impose SLAVE WAGES on LEGAL Immigrants by importing Cheap ILLEGAL Labor!)
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Regarding the medical establishment, I have gone from general ambivalence to visceral distrust.

Last year I found a PA that along with the entire practice doesn’t buy all the crap. She went off all about how much she distrusts the CDC. I knew I was in the right place.

I am in the minority to believe the truth that Ivermectin along with a cocktail of vitamins and supplement does work to cure Covid.


6 posted on 08/28/2023 2:46:58 PM PDT by cyclotic (The real problem with racism in America today is that demand far outstrips supply)
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The CDC has become something between a bad joke and a whore.


7 posted on 08/28/2023 2:47:05 PM PDT by lee martell
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Ivermectin works against covid according to the science:

https://c19ivm.org/meta.html


8 posted on 08/28/2023 2:50:25 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie ("The News” is a fake narrative promulgated by the Deep State Uniparty to control you and enrich them)
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Total crap article - absolutely uninformed (or willfully blind) on ivermectin.

There is light enough for those who wish to see and darkness enough for those who are otherwise inclined.


9 posted on 08/28/2023 2:51:08 PM PDT by Qiviut (To the living, we owe respect. To the dead, we owe the truth (Voltaire) $hot $hills: Sod Off)
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It's difficult enough to believe them based on what they've said, but it's *impossible* to believe anything they say based on what they didn't say. The two words they refused to utter during the scamdemic were "natural immunity".

And for having omitted that, I'll never believe a single word that comes from them.

10 posted on 08/28/2023 2:53:14 PM PDT by The Duke
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Kaiser. The last place I’d actually get any advice for anything.

Yes, they are upset that we aren’t simpletons who will believe what they’re told.


11 posted on 08/28/2023 2:54:04 PM PDT by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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Around 3 in 10 Americans still believe ivermectin is an effective treatment for covid.

So does the CDC.

https://www.westernjournal.com/fda-forced-walk-back-smug-anti-ivermectin-post-makes-huge-admission-drug/

12 posted on 08/28/2023 2:54:17 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is ████ █ ██████ ███████ ███ ██████ ██ ████████. FJB.)
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Few Firm Beliefs and Low Trust

Exactly what the anti-MAGA's had in mind when they seriously began to attack and even weaponize many of our traditional beliefs and institutions; the objective being confusion, bewilderment, chaos and susceptibility to political scams.

WRT the medical profession it no doubt started unnoticed way before when your family physician asked if there were any firearms in your home. The AMA is currently a sad joke and an embarrassment.

13 posted on 08/28/2023 3:09:21 PM PDT by frog in a pot (Open borders are the most cost-effective way to dilute a nation's culture, look around the globe. )
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This article goes very well with one I read recently from a journalist/”medical expert” who graduated from college (in a non-medical field) less than 10 years ago. She was criticizing all the “cretins” out there who questioned the safety of vaccines. “They’re safe, of course.” Apparently she isn’t old enough or aware enough to have any idea of how many medications have been withdrawn from the market in the last half-century.

On this author, this is from LinkedIn:

Author Darius Tahir graduated from Stanford in 2009 with a history degree.

At least he’s somewhat older than the typical media “medical expert”/reporter these days who, on Covid, chastised/vilified/called for the unvaccinated to be put into camps. They were typically journalism majors under 30 often pronouncing their judgment that experienced physicians who put their careers on the line were irresponsible, narcissistic quacks endangering their patients with misinformation.


14 posted on 08/28/2023 3:11:28 PM PDT by Faith Presses On (Willing to die for Christ, if it's His will--politics should prepare people for the Gospel)
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Covid is medical terrorism and domestic propaganda.


15 posted on 08/28/2023 3:54:07 PM PDT by conservativeimage (Divorce the Deep State Peacefully: Become a State National - tasa.americanstatenationals.org)
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Truth?

With very few exceptions, if the government or their owned mainstream media presstitutes says it, it’s almost guaranteed to be false.


16 posted on 08/28/2023 3:56:19 PM PDT by meyer (FBI = KGB for the DNC; IRS = Gestapo)
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Kaiser in Sonoma County, CA, is masking up. I've been posting locally the science of the 1918 Flu Epidemic is that innumerable victims died of bacterial pneumonia, not a flue virus. The bacteria came from the waste and toxins of exhaling trapped by the masks, then inhaled back in.

I read here today there were 4 CoVID deaths across the nation in a week.

17 posted on 08/28/2023 4:24:39 PM PDT by RideForever (Damn, another dangling par .....)
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My first question is about the source. When they don’t tell me who they are, I look over their posted materials to see if I can guess. For this bunch, I’m guessing KFF stands for “Kommunism For the Future.” That may not be correct. Does anyone know who this bunch is?

If this woman thinks all approved medications are safe, I’ll see if I can find an old bottle of Thalidomide lying around.


18 posted on 08/28/2023 4:35:58 PM PDT by Cincinnatus.45-70 (What do DemocRats enjoy more than a truckload of dead babies? Unloading them with a pitchfork!)
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ivermectin AND zinc

cleared out my chest twice

within 48 hours

thats my study


19 posted on 08/28/2023 4:38:39 PM PDT by joshua c (to disrupt the system, we must disrupt our lives, cut the cable tv)
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Interesting. The opening gambit is itself an attack. People may “believe” what they wish, gate keepers! Trust is gone for many, and the gate keepers can't figure out why. Duh.
20 posted on 08/28/2023 5:29:30 PM PDT by Worldtraveler once upon a time (Degrow government)
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