First Sandy Hook trutherism, now hurricane trutherism? God and Al Gore are running a false flag operation?https://www.vox.com/energy-and-environment/2017/9/7/16258848/us-climate-politics-farce …
Partisanship and tribalism is a strong force. There are (much, much) weaker equivalents on the left if introspection is your thing.
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Like 9/11 trutherism, certain flavors of GMO hysteria, certain flavors of the Russia conspiracy theory.
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I say "certain flavors" because there are plausible arguments inside each of the latter two movements.
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Related: how does anyone believe in homeopathic remedies?
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No arguments here. The GMO stuff is the worst. People literally dying because of leftist science illiteracy.
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I really do not mean to imply equivalence. Nobody with the cultural cachet of Limbaugh on the left denies something as simple as hurricanes.
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I guess one blind spot is "all corporations only care about profit" which causes people to miss other, better explanations for bad behavior
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For example, Google's bad behavior re AMP is partially driven by profit motive, but also driven by ego of individual devs and ...
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... cultural mistakes and biases of groups of individual engineers. Profits can enable, but are often not the driving factor ...
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