"It is unfair to say people would just rather eat junk."

You could make the same excuse for people buying into the mRNA thing. They listened to the experts. OK, but now we know the experts were dead wrong, and we expect people to pay attention and come to a different conclusion.

Same with food. The fat and cholesterol hypothesis has been discredited for years now. There's no excuse at this point for believing a low fat low salt diet is healthy.