personally I do think people who decline it are dumb or ignorant, but I reserve the term "dumbass" for extreme cases, such as that specific tweet which was in response to the combination of medical exemption AND vocal anti-vaxer
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Replying to @TylerGlaiel @cmuratori and
but this is also because the venn diagram of people who dont want the vax and the people who refused to wear a mask or thought masks were harmful is nearly a circle as well. that position does not seem to come in a vacuum on its own, based on people I know
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Replying to @TylerGlaiel @cmuratori and
so if theres a mythical person who did the research and came to the conclusion that they might want to wait for more data before getting the shot, and also take all the other precautions like mask wearing and avoiding crowds while waiting, then I wouldn't call that person dumb
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Replying to @TylerGlaiel @cmuratori and
but I'm pretty sure that person doesn't exist
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Replying to @TylerGlaiel @sohakes and
I guarantee you that person exists - they are just very scientific people, and obviously rare, as you might expect.
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Replying to @cmuratori @sohakes and
doesn't exist *in significant enough numbers to matter
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Replying to @TylerGlaiel @sohakes and
Well, I would argue the same about people who really understood the vaccine before taking it, and the possible long-term epidemiological outcomes, too :)
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Replying to @cmuratori @sohakes and
we have a very useful shortcut for that called "listen to the experts" though
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Replying to @TylerGlaiel @sohakes and
That sentiment I do object to. Saying "listen to the experts" presumes the person knows who is an expert, which is precisely the thing in question here. I point again to examples, such as "eat mostly carbohydrates" situation.
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Replying to @cmuratori @TylerGlaiel and
Often think of this (img). Hearing a lot of “why trust the establisment? “ and “What makes an expert consensus better than this single outlier?” And it’s like: this is the basis of human society. We trust the consensus of our experts. Otherwise it all falls apart fastpic.twitter.com/q9sWySb4Fy
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This image is offensive enough, and blatantly wrong enough, that I wish I had a non-programming YouTube channel so I could rant about it for the hour it deserves. And I say that _as_ an expert in a field.
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Replying to @cmuratori @warrenblyth and
Could you please elaborate on this? I'm very curious on what makes you dislike this statment, which I find very sensible.
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Replying to @_cyphics_ @warrenblyth and
It would take a very long time to elaborate, because I think it is a statement that comes entirely from the core misunderstanding about how humans "know" things, mostly driven by hubris, that most people today take to be a given.
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