> “People feel that science is this powerful source that is jerking them around and telling them what to do and making them feel stupid.”

> More than half of Americans get their health information from social media, with Facebook especially popular in rural communities.

> “If you take those same topics and you try to be straight about it, you’re going to immediately turn off a lot of people,” Flanary said. Truth is often more boring than misinformation

My take on this: most americans actually are stupid.

I mean, how else can trailpark denizens think that a billionaire brat child slum lord is going to improve their economic situation?

This is why we had a thing called "public education", and it's why that thing has been under siege, pretty much ever since it was instituted.

It seems that emo, irrational content is largely attributed to the woke-nuts, but I would argue that emo manipulation has been the power of the wing-nuts for decades (since the southern strategy at least).

NOTE: woke-nut-ism is NOT left politics, and wing-nut-ism is NOT right wing. These are both misinformation echo chambers guided by invoking a sense of "identity" among the participants.

This is why the power brokers of the right have always attacked public education. Their power primarily derives from an uninformed populous, incapable of rational analysis.

No one anywhere sees that situation improving anytime soon. This is only going to get worse as more people consider some meme illiterate influenza as an authority figurine.