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Personally, I blame the people telling the lies; e.g. the antivax campaigners, the tobacco companies, etc.
Blame the politicians they own
It's tough when doctors have been liars too, like those who are hired to push a certain narrative by corporations, or those who participated in unethical studies, or basically all doctors to women saying all our problems are emotional and in our heads while ignoring objective medical facts/symptoms.
When I see how differently men and women are treated in medicine, it's hard to trust doctors to be objective. They're just not.
I'm doing my best to be a good little Democrat and look down on those who don't trust doctors but geeze, experiencing a pregnancy and then giving birth in America makes it real hard to give doctors the benefit of the doubt.
Just wait until you or someone close develops an autoimmune disease, then the trust meter falls off a cliff during round after round of tests and "you're fine".
Or if you have a bunion that skews your big toe 35° but they tell you it's not bad enough for surgery and there's nothing to be done for it.
Or...yeah we could be here all day just for the system's failings for me and my wife.
And there's our lack of or inadequate mental health coverage and care.
The tobacco companies? Telling lies? Why I never!
What's next, Kellogg shouldn't be advertising sugar for breakfast for kids?
We will always have liars about literally everything you cannot blame the liars for being successful fix the system that let them defeat truth.
You absolutely can, and should, hold liars accountable. The "don't hate the player, hate the game" excuse simply doesn't fly for everything.
Any system capable of countering a determined attempt to spread misinformation would by design attach penalties to such lies, and those penalties would be enforced on the liars. What successful fix could even be proposed that withholds blame?
Penalising liars seems a lot like suppression of opinions that's a very dangerous route to take. An most educated independent thinkers dont fall for most lies. So maybe fix the american education system and that should solve this problem pretty well. Blame them for being cunts sure but punishing makes unfiltered speech dangerous.