LOOKS LIKE MOST PEOPLE IN THE US DO NOT TRUST THE SCIENCE…HANG THE BASTARDS

Now that a court has ordered the release of COVID-19 vaccine trials, most voters suspect there’s been a cover-up.

The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 62% of Likely U.S. Voters believe it is likely that federal officials were engaged in covering up potentially harmful side effects of COVID-19 vaccines, including 39% who think it’s Very Likely. Twenty-eight percent (28%) don’t consider a cover-up likely, and another 10% are not sure. (To see survey question wording, click here.)

Last week, a federal judge ordered the Food and Drug Administration to release previously hidden COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials data. Seventy-one percent (71%) of voters say this data should have been made public before the vaccine was recommended to the public. Just 15% disagree and 14% are not sure.

The survey of 1,230 U.S. Likely Voters was conducted on December 9-11, 2024 by Rasmussen Reports. The margin of sampling error is +/- 3 percentage points with a 95% level of confidence.

Aides to President Joe Biden have suggested he may issue a preemptive pardon to Dr. Anthony Fauci “who became a lightning rod for criticism” of the administration’s COVID-19 policies. Forty-five percent (45%) of voters would approve of Biden pardoning Fauci, while 43% would disapprove of such a pardon. Eleven percent (11%) are not sure.

While 67% of Democrats would approve of a pardon for Fauci, 68% of Republicans would disapprove. Among voters not affiliated with either major party, 41% would approve Biden pardoning Fauci and 46% would disapprove, with 11% undecided.

Majorities of every political category – 81% of Republicans, 61% of Democrats and 71% of unaffiliated voters – agree that data about COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials should have been made public before the vaccine was recommended to the public.

Eighty percent (80%) of Republicans believe it’s at least somewhat likely that federal officials were engaged in covering up potentially harmful side effects of COVID-19 vaccines, as do 44% of Democrats and 60% of unaffiliated voters.

There isn’t much of a “gender gap” on these questions, except that women voters (46%) are slightly more likely than men (43%) to approve of a presidential pardon for Fauci.

Majorities of every racial category – 60% of whites, 62% of black voters, 72% of Hispanics and 62% of other minorities – consider it at least somewhat likely that federal officials covered up harmful side effects of COVID-19 vaccines.

Breaking down the electorate by income categories, voters in the top bracket – earning more than $200,000 a year – are most likely to approve of Biden issuing a preemptive pardon for Fauci.