are inclined to think that throughout the world doctors and medical journals are lying in a conspiracy to kill people.
I think it is much more complex than something so simple as "lying". It involves revolving doors between the regulated and regulators, money, power, greed, fear of blacklisting, grant funding, along with a corrupted legacy media and the very powerful social platforms which traded in their traditional role as watchdogs for the people, and have now become protectors of the system.
It all adds up to a good reason to distrust what we are being told, and leaves many like myself with no other choice but to seek out "the truth" from more obscure, and possibly unreliable sources.