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by mc32 1777 days ago
The case for the vaccine sells itself.

Why do professionals get in the business of exaggeration when it serves no useful purpose than to provide excuses and doubt to the hesitant.

Also. Often when officials state things with exaggerated and unwarranted certainty, take it with a grain of salt.

PS why isn’t Twitter marking such as misinformation? My guess, it fits their narrative, so it gets a pass.

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There's a natural predilection for some people that, when presented with bullshit (in this case "5g mIcROchIPS"), go in the complete opposite direction and start spewing bullshit themselves, but based on the opposite underlying truth.

This same phenomenon is easily witnessed in other contexts, including politics (Q-Anon vs. zany Kremlin theories), and science (climate change deniers vs. climate doomsday seers).

I'm unsure what the cause or solution to this is, but I think sage advice would be to approach always assume the worst for your side of the story. Don't try and stretch data to fit your worldview. If your position doesn't hold up under the harshest scrutiny that you can give it, it's not a position worth holding.