blade944

blade944 t1_jd63edq wrote

Maybe left field for most in North America, but give a listen to Elbow. I’ve yet to find a bad album in their extensive discography.

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blade944 t1_j265mii wrote

No. We do know it was the best available at the time because the best people in the field told us so. If a thousand epidemiologists say one thing and one chiropractor on YouTube says another you can safely ignore the chiropractor. The entire point is that organized groups put it in people’s heads, you included, that somehow the experts were wrong, or deliberately fucking us over, and that somehow some fringe crackpots had all the answers. What you do t realize is that you are a victim of these misinformation campaigns and you are still doing their dirty work for them.

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blade944 t1_j2649y0 wrote

I never said it was the best. It was the best available at the time. That’s how science works. The conspiracy part is that you led with government lies and deceit. Most of that is in the realm of conspiracy theories. The thing you seem to be hung up in is the idea of differing opinions. For most of scientific research there is no difference of opinion. There is fact, and not fact. And those that peddle not fact are spreading misinformation. We are at the point that anti vaxers must be taken seriously even though ALL legitimate research proves them wrong. Not everything has two sides that must be given equal consideration. You don’t have flat earthers on the news to give their opinion on the artimus mission. The problem is when that kind of nut job thinking is given legitimacy and spread deliberately in order to create chaos. “News” outlets like fox that pound gear into their viewers and farm outrage while swearing under oath that they don’t believe any of what they say on their shows. That deliberate misinformation in order to keep viewers engaged and outraged. There now is a large part of the country that believes every little piece of misinformation that comes their way because to them it has become a drug. These are the people that believe trump is fighting some secret battle and is actually president. These are the people that think Jan 6th was antifa. These people are now sitting in congress making laws. The ones that didn’t win are being put on the bench as a judge by the GOP. That’s fucking scary. That’s what misinformation does. It gives a really loud voice to the one person in opposition to millions. It makes individuals think that all opinions are equal and deserve equal weight. They don’t.

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blade944 t1_j25qpd6 wrote

Are you seriously bringing up the barrington deceleration? That is so out dated that the language still contains references to future possible vaccines. It was also based strictly on opinion and left a lot to be desired re: their conclusions and methodology. And msnbc is an opinion channel. Not a really good rule stick to measure anything by. True news sources reported what was the best information available at the time. If it turned out to be wrong later , because new discoveries were made , that would not be misinformation. The second one starts with government conspiracies in their response a red flag goes up. At this point one needs to do a deep dive and find out what sources those individuals believe to be trust worthy. You started with the government conspiracy. Red flag.

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blade944 t1_j25hx5k wrote

So now you’re changing your argument from your original post. What are you, 12? Misinformation on social media is a very serious problem. It leads to crap like qanon and trump being president. It leads to antivax nutjobs and flat earthers. It is content controlled and distributed by foreign entities looking to disrupt societies in their favour.

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blade944 t1_iwwqvki wrote

Very true. They found that galaxies didn't behave as they should based on current understanding of physics. So instead of looking at a possible broken model they imagined dark matter and energy to explain it all. So they've been desperately looking for any evidence whatsoever to support the idea but have found none. Yet they still cling to their models and ostricize any and all that question general and special relativity.

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