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by AftHurrahWinch
1519 days ago
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> It's kinda sad because it bleeds into everything now - it's no longer acceptable for someone to be like "well let's think about it together.. " and have any discourse. > Is it not the best option to deal with science deniers is to talk to them about it? It'd be the "best option" if not for the asymmetry of effort. It's trivial to make things up. It takes more effort to find and understand sources. It's slower still to do original research. You may claim that 'it's worth it' to invest the 5x or 10x the effort to debunk a falsehood than it took to make the falsehood, but whether it's worth it or not "A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots." (Mark Twain) |
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You made the assertion that the flagged scientific article 'just made things up' that's quite the claim.
This isn't an anonymous claim on twitter. The appropriate effort relative to the source is all that is needed. In the case of anonymous twitter claims, then anyone can easily dismiss or argue with them to their hearts are content. The problem is that we have a religion who wishes to dismiss the heretics.
>You may claim that 'it's worth it' to invest the 5x or 10x the effort to debunk a falsehood than it took to make the falsehood, but whether it's worth it or not "A lie can travel around the world and back again while the truth is lacing up its boots." (Mark Twain)
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02152-y
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2021/09/right-now-clash-scie...
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/how-talk-science-denier
https://www.cbc.ca/radio/quirks/dec-18-holiday-science-book-...
Let's hypothetically say this flagged article is in fact true. Everyone who got vaxxed has weakened their immune system. Personally probably a good thing, autoimmune etc, but what a disaster for public health. Not only that we're dismissing their claims based on... faith?