Gut Beliefs

Glenn Reynolds observes that many people's 'gut belief', and you really can't fault them, is that "the people running things are incompetents who often lie and manipulate".

Vaccine Skepticism Was Viewed as a Knowledge Problem. It’s Actually About Gut Beliefs.
Identifying those psychological traits may help health officials convince the sizable minority of Americans who don’t want a coronavirus vaccine. Simply sharing information hasn’t worked.