Survey: Half of Americans believe in at least one medical conspiracy theory

Select findings:

• 37 percent believe the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is preventing access to natural cures for cancer and other diseases because of pressure from drug companies.


• 20 percent believe doctors and the federal government continue to push vaccinations even though they know they cause autism and other psychological disorders.


• 20 percent believe health officials know cell phones cause cancer but are doing nothing because large corporations won’t let them.


• Smaller numbers believe chemical companies are dumping dangerous chemicals into the environment under the guise of water fluoridation; the U.S. is deliberately infecting black Americans with HIV; and genetically modified food is part of a secret program to shrink the world’s population.

Published in JAMA Internal Medicine (Allegedly - I can't find a link to it - ?)





ETA: Found it. [Medical Conspiracy Theories and Health Behaviors in the United States]

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