Its not the only disease this has happened to either. ME/CFS has been railroaded by European governments that funded only psychological research despite numerous pathological findings and better theories of the disease, this prejudiced treatment started in the 1970s and persists to this day including the corruption of the PACE trial results which researchers tried to hide the data of.
Research fraud in medicine is alarmingly common.
One infuriating thing about PACE is that even the fraudulent results only showed a 22% recovery rate.
For a disease as serious as ME/CFS, a treatment with a 22% recovery rate is far from good enough. Even if PACE stood up to scrutiny it wouldn’t have made sense to give up on finding better treatments.
One of the issues. There are number of others. For example, VAT is a value-based tax. A VAT cut gives the biggest savings to people who spend the most. Since wealthier people typically spend more, they would save more money in absolute terms. For example, a family with a food budget of 3,000 kr. would save 300 kr., while a family with a food budget of 8,000 kr. would save 800 kr. Politically, some parties might prefer tax breaks that focused on lower-income groups.
Another issue, will the cost savings actually be passed on to the consumer?
[edit] assuming we’re talking about VAT on things that everyone buys. Which is why tax codes often exempt essential items from VAT.