A few years ago I wrote about this phenomenon as it applies to climate change denial. Now we can see it again in the responses to coronavirus.https://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/846595785722494976 …
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A nontrivial number of Americans seem to believe that magic is real, and that physical threats can be made to go away if only enough people tweet that the threats don't exist.
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This shouldn't require saying, but: Magic is not real. And bullshit is bullshit even if you get 22,000 people to retweet it and some talking heads to say it on cable news.
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Their big sky daddy promised them they'd be fine.
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Triple points for a medium post
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The most important biographical fact to understand the president of the United States is that Norman Vincent Peale was his family’s pastorpic.twitter.com/j14n2e4UJF
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Yep. Presided at Trump's first wedding. NVP also feared, in 1935, that a demagogic faux populist might be elevated to the Oval Office. https://afflictor.com/2017/10/16/old-print-article-norman-vincent-peale-fears-american-fascism-1935/ …
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I honestly think a lot of people don't really understand the germ theory of disease?
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Louis Pasteur had this very problem.
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@pontifex suspended the need for the sacrament of confession during this crisis, but people out here still believing in snake oil.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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yeah it makes me a LOT more pessimistic about us taking on climate change if this is how they respond to a fucking pandemic that is staring them right in the face
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