Real government medical abuses complicate dismissals of health conspiracies
Evidence
Underlying these changing concerns is one constant: fear of the heavy, strangling hand of government control. Mandatory vaccine laws and such measures as putting fluoride in the water are unquestionably good for public health, but they tend to create a noticeable backfire effect, confirming people’s beliefs in an overbearing government. Just to complicate things, it is also true that the government has engaged in very real, disturbing medical experimentation on civilians and then covered it up. — Anna Merlan, Republic of Lies, 533
Categorization
- XREF: connects to: Colonial medical critiques of infrastructure neglect were suppressed from official reports — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 845; Medical expertise can be turned to torture of prisoners — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 442; Unreckoned medical violence left marginalized communities vulnerable to pandemic misinformation — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror…, 254 (+2 more)
Broader Connections
- Generational distrust of medical science in Black families traces to documented experimentation abuses.
#exemplifies(0.90) — Tamara Lanier, From These Roots, 974 - Unreckoned medical violence left marginalized communities vulnerable to pandemic misinformation
#expands(0.85) — Naomi Klein, Doppelganger, 254 - Colonial doctors systematically falsified medical evidence to shield torturers from prosecution
#exemplifies(0.80) - Colonial medical critiques of infrastructure neglect were suppressed from official reports
#exemplifies(0.75) — Ann Laura Stoler, Along the Archival Grain_ Epistemic…, 845 - Medical expertise can be turned to torture of prisoners
#exemplifies(0.75) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 442