One puzzle in our current problems with COVID-19 is why some important political

One puzzle in our current problems with COVID-19 is why some important political leaders, notably the Prime
Minister in England, Boris Johnson, our former President Donald Trump, and the President in Brazil, Jair Bolsonaro, the Governor of Florida, Dion DeSantis, and the Governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, some of whom are highly educated people, have either intermittently or consistently rejected the advice of very knowledgeable scientists and experts in public health, for example Dr. Anthony Fauci. “In 2003, an Institute for Scientific Information study indicated that in the twenty year period from 1983 to 2002, Dr. Fauci was the 13th most-cited scientist among the 2.5 to 3 million authors in all disciplines throughout the world who published articles in scientific journals during that time frame. Dr. Fauci was the world’s 10th most-cited HIV/AIDS researcher in the period 1996-2006.” (from https://web.archive.org/web/20071030171118/http://www3.niaid.nih.gov/about/directors/biography/ )  He received a BA in Classics (Greek and Latin) from the College of the Holy Cross and an MD from Cornell University, where he was first in his class.
For now note that the fastest way to find scientific articles on COVID-19 is to check the National Library of Medicine.  You may enter LitCOVID at www.google.com or point your browser at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/coronavirus/
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