Why do so many ordinary Americans distrust the medical industry?

I was having a conversation about trust in the medical industry with my doctor, and he told me that his patients were just being tricked by “social media”, whereas doctors like him are “evidence-based”. First of all, the people I follow on social media are now running the NIH, FDA and CDC. So now I am the science. Second of all, the public’s distrust of doctors is based on evidence.Let’s take a look at an article from the Manhattan Institute‘s City Journ