skepticism

It is a task increasingly difficult to accomplish with political leaders like the secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr., a known vaccine critic, encouraging vaccine skepticism.

Earlier this week, tech leaders and even cryptocurrency executives who backed Trump expressed skepticism about the creation of a reserve that includes tokens other than bitcoin.

On each issue, skepticism was highest among Democrats but also strong among independent voters, while Republicans largely backed the president.

I expressed skepticism about this pledge shortly after the election by listing all the oblique ways the Trump administration could hack away at the program.

This type of skepticism continued even as wave after wave of immigrants — Irish, Italians, Jews, Chinese, Mexicans — ended up assimilating.