marilern1987 t1_jdw63kl wrote on March 27, 2023 at 5:14 PM

Reply to comment by Taxoro in Linguistic analysis of 177,296 Reddit comments sheds light on negative attitudes toward science by HeinieKaboobler

These are the same people who thought they were pioneers against misinformation during Covid.

I’m no anti-masker, but it does amaze me how Redditors claimed they believe in science, and then they will go on to discredit any scientific article they don’t like, self diagnose themselves with slow metabolisms, starvation mode, and push this idea that we have insulin resistance via the internet and need to eat keto

Taxoro t1_jdweat8 wrote on March 27, 2023 at 6:05 PM

No idea what you are going on about bud

marilern1987 t1_jdwet9j wrote on March 27, 2023 at 6:09 PM

I was agreeing with you. Bud.

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Erriis t1_jdxx3vp wrote on March 28, 2023 at 12:15 AM

OP was making a valid point that you agree with

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guiltysnark t1_je0l344 wrote on March 28, 2023 at 3:33 PM

Are you describing a lack of internal self consistency in individual people, and not the cacophonous dissonance you inevitably get when you lump a large number of very, very different people together into one group?

marilern1987 t1_je0nily wrote on March 28, 2023 at 3:48 PM

I’m talking about people who spent a great deal pushing for the right science, only to follow pseudo science in other areas of their lives

If you look at the comment history of some of these people, they will argue basic physics