Magical thinking will be with us always.
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People choose what they will believe. Religious or not, people can still choose to be wrong in the face of insurmountable facts. Bunk science is a public health hazard because revoking a piece because of questionable findings or methodology can be viewed as "censorship".
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ILLNESS IS NOT DESTINY gahhhh this makes me so angry
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I would read in conjunction with this thread. I think of such magical thinking as a broad current tendency that liberalism neither forestalls nor encourages, though it may influence form.https://twitter.com/bombsfall/status/1133940916601925632?s=19 …
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What good is some truth when the entire premise is wrong though? The anti-vax movement is aided and abetted by the GOP at a legislative level. Just because Ross thinks those people are liberals doesn't make it so.
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though it's more of a dogma / praxis distinction: not so much magical thinking but the actions carried out in its service.
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I’m not sure it’s a decline in trad religions. I think it’s class markers. Just like you prove how elite and high status you are by drinking poor-people beer, voluntarily giving up the advantages of wealth and status mark you as elite.
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Douhat elsewhere quoted Chesterton: 'When men choose not to believe in God, they do not thereafter believe in nothing, they then become capable of believing in anything.'
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True, but Douthat's point tying antivax to liberals giving up on God is a very faulty one since there's a HUGE antivax component among conservatives Same with countries like Australia that have had a big growth antivax where it's primarily along class/wealth lines
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That and a general distrust of government and strong belief in making individual choices - "I know what's best for my child, not some bureaucrat" The initial spurt was definitely liberal, but today it's far more present among libertarians/small govt independents
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