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How does Trump saying something muddy what scientists and doctors are saying?

Even if he wasn't self serving and incurious, his statements wouldn't be worth more than the actual science.

If your question is in good faith, US researchers work on US universities and research institutes, both partly sponsored by the US government, who is very vocal on what it thinks the scientific opinion should be. And this new study is a meta study only (at best), very subject to interpretation by what I skimmed.

The president is an idiot and RFK is a grifter crank, I don't have to take them seriously just because they have power.

Also, it's against the guidelines to say things like "If your question is in good faith".

OK, but the response still answered your question: Trump and his cronies get to pick and choose which research gets funded and publicized through government channels.

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