it's all about whether people can have faith in the system that
tells them that it's the right thing to do. If you know no science you are basically letting some dude who says they (and a lot of other dudes) know what they are doing then you might has well have someone wave a magic wand

Answer is, more education, less battering people with the 'of course we're right' stick.
( Citizen Cavy Admires your passion for conformity, Fri 22 Jul 2011, 10:12, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

Ben Goldacre made a very good point
that the real villain in this is not the Andrew Wakefield, nor the other scientists whose findings might conflict and confuse, but the newspapers, who happily leapt upon the story and went on a massive, ham-fisted scaremongering campaign with some rather troubling consequences. (Reckon we can beat Murdoch Inc with this stick as well?)
(LongJohnBaldry, Fri 22 Jul 2011, 10:36, Reply)