Because I like exterminating any residual shreds of faith in humanity, I looked through the overwhelmingly hostile comments on a YouTube video by a doctor debunking some covid misinformation tonight. I noticed an interesting parallel to some “election theft” disinfo.
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Josh Marshall used a phrase at least a decade ago, "the War on Expertise" that seems particularly relevant here. The unmooring of the epistemology of conservatives has been a concerted effort a looong time in the making.
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Isaac Asimov wrote, 4 decades ago, of the American strain of anti-intellectualism that has become a cult of ignorance:pic.twitter.com/k3nDKV10Ao
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It helped me when a dr/researcher showed me how long mnra(?) vaccine delivery had been researched and tested. We were putting the virus in a long-understood bit of biological research, not pasting it on something invented yesterday. So delivery is sound, only question is shot
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The notion they appeal to any kind of philosophy is nonsense. Don't be Scots hating.
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There is disinformation in every language, Jeet. Scottish enlightenment provided a theoretical explanation for ordinary behavior, which they explained at the time.
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