Same thing with the anti-vaccine movements in Africa. When the CIA spent decades intentionally spreading diseases using vaccines as a cover, and hundreds of charlatans use European aid money to poison people, it makes sense that Africans would trust ancient Medicine Men over The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
To the locals, Medicine Man has a 5% success rate, but a 0% harm rate. Master William Henry Gates The Third has a decent success rate, but a big harm rate. Doesn't take a math genius to go "no risk going to Medicine Man, little reward, but might help. BIG risk going to William Henry Gates The Third."
I don't fucking blame them.
Same thing with the anti-vaccine movements in Africa. When the CIA spent decades intentionally spreading diseases using vaccines as a cover, and hundreds of charlatans use European aid money to poison people, it makes sense that Africans would trust ancient Medicine Men over The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.
To the locals, Medicine Man has a 5% success rate, but a 0% harm rate. Master William Henry Gates The Third has a decent success rate, but a big harm rate. Doesn't take a math genius to go "no risk going to Medicine Man, little reward, but might help. BIG risk going to William Henry Gates The Third."