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'Your question is so stupid' Trump snaps when asked how much economic pain he'd tolerate
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Thanks for your answer, I have a Masters, but in a medical field, and there's no way that kind of fraud could fly in my world. I appreciate your time and insight :)
No problem!
But uh... I dunno exactly what your masters in the medical field is, but the medical field is also absolutely chalk full of people with sometimes real, legit degrees and sometimes absolute bullshit ones like chiropracty and naturopathy...
Who routinely publish pop-medical books oriented toward the general public, using their official credentials for clout, often promoting dubious or utterly false and dangerous misinformation.
Yout field is not immune... though yes, there generally is a better unified official condemnation... but only after a certain person has reached a certain level of popularity/infamy, and the seeds of nonsense have already been sewn.
Then the official condemnation is seen as censoring heroic truth warriors and the conspiracy theories abound.
I'm in Australia, and I don't see much of what you are suggesting is rampant. Yes, it happens, but there's no way a charlatan like Peter Navarro would have risen to advisor to our political leaders without having been called out long before. Certainly, policy based on his fraudulent claims would have been tarred and feathered and ridden out of town.
Ah.
I am American.
I live in hell.
We have a much broader problem of corrupt grifters in... basically everything, at every level of society.
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Sorry for doing the American thing and assuming you are also American.
No problem at all. In more normal times, you'd be correct to do so. There's a saying to the effect that when America sneezes, the rest of the world catches a cold. Basically, we're all in this boat, hence the interest from off shore. Our Stock market lost billions today, for example... I'm watching with great interest, and just wish there was more I could do. Best wishes to you and every American who is sane :)