Most people start lying long before they reach any position of power and in many cases, lying is exaclyt how they got there. That's what makes it hard to fix: by the time someone is in power, the behavior has already been rewarded and is already doing a snowball effect. I'm not defending it (especially in Politics, it shouldn't be legal), just acknowledging reality that people lie about tiny things, so of course they lie about big things. It's more of a people problem, not only a people-in-power problem.

In practice, I doubt that they have a way out of all the lie-parade as well while being able to maintain their position, imagine if today any politician/CEO suddenly acknowledge "oh sorry guys, all that time we were just lying" => Career death (with snowball effect)

To your second question: many do have drug reporting on paper, mostly because GAVI requires an AEFI committee to access vaccine funding but in practice it's not the case which is why I said "(or just wouldn't do it)", virtually no Pedia would write a report for a kid having a headache post vaccination. As of 2022, apparently only 43% of ALL countries met WHO's absolute minimal bar of ONE serious report per million people per year, SE Asia is at 9%, a third of countries report close to zero.

And this isn't bad faith on my part, these are WHO and CDC's own numbers, not an opinion.

[1] https://www.who.int/docs/default-source/documents/global-vac... [2] https://iris.who.int/bitstream/handle/10665/70854/WHO_IVB_12... [3] https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/volumes/72/wr/mm7249a2.htm [4] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC5857292/ [5] https://www.gavi.org/sites/default/files/sites/default/files... [6] https://www.fda.gov.ph/pharmacovigilance/ [7] https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40801-025-00492-z [8] https://siapsprogram.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/15-125-P...

- They don't have a mechanism (or just wouldn't do it) to report side-effects or complaints (unsure worldwide but I know personally that it's the case in many countries).

- They aren't even really informed about the vaccine research, they'll just say it's safe, without even actually knowing themselves or getting updated on latest research.

- They wouldn't even actually tell you anything, they would straight tell that your child must take a combo of 7 drugs, hmm ok?

Many people are also talking as if getting vaccines is just "free", nothing is free when it comes to drugs, there is always an upside AND a downside, but apparently discussing the downsides is a sensitive subject, saying there is no downsides is just spitting non-sense.

And now per this article doctors are openly ignoring the new federal vaccine recommendations. So "trust the guidelines" apparently only applies when they agree with them. You can't demand blind trust from parents while selectively disregarding official recommendations yourself, this is exactly how you destroy what little trust is left.

PS: My kid is recently vaccinated, before some Reddit people dismiss the whole thing as "anti-vax"

Ready for the downvotes.

The average scam callcenter is relatively small scale with 20 workers in it and often is maintained within "family/friends", the POGO industry is very different and it's absolutely not reflecting the reality, that's just a particular niche that is mostly managed by foreign individuals (from China, Cambodia...)

There is many ways of doing spam/fraud, think also that some are not very clever nor have good financial literacy, they just don't know the best mechanisms due to lack of education in tech (and the dark side).

For example, some would pay an infected residential network for $5 per GB, and some will only pay $0.10 per GB, depending on how knowledgeable they are.

Most calls/bulk SMS can be done cheaply by just buying Stolen VoIP enterprise accounts (available on a ton of forums), a "scam" operation will resort to any way possible because they don't have any law affecting them as they do so already illegally, it's not the same as "marketing calls".