Doctor Mike

When you tell people that vaccines don't cause autism, they shouldn't believe it anymore.

When you tell them that COVID vaccines aren't killing people, they should stop believing it.

And when you realize that that just isn't what is driving the beliefs, that's not what's driving the messages, that there is an entire snowball effect that is happening, that information is moving from the bottom up, and that the sort of old top-down mechanisms of communication and trust and authority and influence

don't work in the same way that they used to.

It requires a foundationally different approach to communication, to thinking about authority.

And I think that the desire to just say like, well, the social media company should do something about it is where a lot of people go.

And it takes some convincing to say like,

that's just not gonna work.

That's not gonna do the thing you want it to do.

Yeah, I think in a lot of issues, yes.

And I think that this is something that is very, very difficult.

Right now, polling is, I think, one thing I hear from people who are pollsters is that polling is also significantly broken right now.

The question of how do you reach different demographics when, you know, people under 40 don't pick up their phones, right?

How often do you pick up your phone when you see a number you don't know?

Never.

This is why you see these constant articles every time there's an election, like, wow, how surprised we all are, right, about whatever.

I think even the New York primary last night, you're seeing some articles about people being surprised about different pockets of the city, different demographics of the city, things like this.

So there's that question of,

How do we know what public opinion is?

Do we know what public opinion is?