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uhsguy  ·  1406 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The red pill overlap

“ I have been getting frustrated with people in my extended and close circle moving towards conspiracy theories and science denial.”

I guess I have trouble with the term “science”, I read this more as, people around me don’t accept or conform to my “religious” views and I’m mad at them for picking a different religion. In the age of covid the science is crap, the study’s often are using bad or incomplete data and the additional filter and spin put on top of that when it is processed to be consumed by the masses makes It only marginally more factually accurate than something someone wrote on a stone tablet 2000 years ago.

Unless you are actively reading the source materials (which I am not probably more due to lack of access than interest) I dont feel like you should be making any claims of having an opinion based on science. And if you are then you should do your best to establish to your peers where your data comes from and let them make up their own mind.

In the US at least I don’t feel like there are any official science sources that are trustworthy. The CDC and google are tainted, Bill gates you couldn’t trust with education but you trust him with covid?, state sources are for the most part cooking the books trying to justify the discussions already made so who is left except primary sources?

Sure there is real science going on in the background somewhere but what most people are consuming is some sort of religion based loosely on some science, so don’t be so high and mighty about your science because it’s probably just science based bullshit