[slothtrop]

I think tribal and political social media discourse has exacerbated this effect, by which I mean, blanket acceptance of the ADHD diagnosis process and medication is now left-coded.

Conspiracy theorist anti-vax types exhibit "Big Pharma" skepticism, so media and pundits take great care to remind people of this. They want them to believe that they're picking a side in tribal politics.

edit: Another way it becomes left-coded is exhibited in this thread: victimization and grievance politics.

[collingreen]

Anecdote - I'm in no way antivax or auth right but I still have a very strong skepticism to big pharma and corruption in general. I think about Purdue pharma often and how they showed just how much money you can print with some bribery and a sociopathic disregard for human life. Killing Americans is big (and shockingly safe) business if you cut the right folks in and do it at large scale!