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ShishKabob
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 Wed, Jan 12 2022, 11:12 am
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Because people believe what they want to believe. That's how I see it.
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ShishKabob
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Wed, Jan 12 2022, 11:41 am
| amother [ OP ] wrote: | | I look for multiple sources on something that really interests me so I can make an educated decision on what to believe. Otherwise I categorize it as maybe and don't stand firm behind the ideas. | Good for you, however, honestly, we all have our preconceived ideas about certain things and we tend to lean towards believing that. And we tend to get our sources to agree with it. It takes a really open mind to look at an issue from totally left field.
Otoh, the dishonesty is so rampant that it's very difficult to get a 'real' feel for things. You find out years later that certain scientists arranged their experiments to feed their own conclusion and that it wasn't science in the end. It's made me very cynical and skeptical.
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devorah1231
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Wed, Jan 12 2022, 12:53 pm
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So if someone sends me a news article and I feel interesting either because I think it's funny or because I think it's true if I forward it then they know who the source is because they can see. But I won't forward a random statistic that somebody screenshot with no sources along with it.
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BubblyBubby
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Wed, Jan 12 2022, 1:06 pm
| amother [ OP ] wrote: | My sister in law sent me a link to a WhatsApp group. I clicked to join without knowing what it was figuring I could always leave.
It was an anti-vax group where everyone posts anti vax stuff to keep each other informed. Not sure why, if your anti vax why do you need more? My sister in law then messaged me, True information about vaccines!
I don't get it. She is really intelligent in general. I'm not super pro or against vaccines but why do you think just because someone posted something on Whatsapp that it's true? Most of this stuff has no source. Could be some of it is valid but loads of it is made by people to make a point, to fool people, as a joke, or for other dubious reasons. The pro-vax people do the same thing.
Covid is the obvious example (I remember someone sent me something that was supposed to look like a medical article about why the vaccine is bad for fertility and I was just laughing as I read it because the medical terms were completely not what they were pretending to be it was talking about stool softeners).
But same goes for other things... Elections, new laws, etc where people run with headlines and makes memes based on them and post online/whatsapp and ARE BELIEVED.
Why would someone intelligent believe this stuff? I'm sure half the stuff with sources is garbage too... I am a big believer in taking EVERYTHING will a grain of salt. |
Why don't you mail back a link to a Mickey Mouse movie und write "true information about mice"?
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Wed, Jan 12 2022, 1:34 pm
| amother [ Gardenia ] wrote: | | History has taught me that those who are skeptical and question often end up with the correct information. And there is nothing wrong with questioning ever. |
Isn't that what OP is saying?
The problem is that some people pat themselves on the back for "questioning" when in reality, they're just stubbornly refusing to believe anything they hear from sources they don't approve of, while agreeing with everything they hear from other, equally-or-less-reliable sources. It's not skepticism if the only things you question are the ones you don't want to hear.
Eg people who get all skeptical of scientists because "they're in it for the money," without questioning for a second whether the people who encourage them not to trust scientists are in it for the money (spoiler: yes).
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Fox
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Wed, Jan 12 2022, 2:17 pm
| amother [ Bergamot ] wrote: | | Wait- do you believe in mainstream media? It's easy to pick on the extreme and wacky side of the off the rails cult, but the mainstream media hasn't exactly been honest about Covid. Whether it's the origins (Wuhan China) or the amount of hospitalizations and deaths, the don't exactly have any credibility. |
There's scholarly work in communication and rhetoric that's been around for decades about the circumstances that cause people to believe in wildly improbable theories.
The first is a crisis or major event of some kind, whether real or manufactured.
The second is a lack of transparency by the usual authority figures.
The less transparency is shown by authority figures, the more people will believe in wildly improbable theories.
Trust in mainstream journalism has been declining precipitously for 30+ years. People are largely cynical that they will get real answers from journalists.
Trust in government agencies, such as the CDC, NIH, and FDA have eroded because of mixed and erroneous messaging about Covid. This has been exacerbated by the "Streisand Effect" of social media banning anyone who questions the government narrative -- even when their statements are later proven accurate.
The bottom line is that most of the people staffing these agencies as well as those working for mainstream media outlets are playing the game with 1990 rules, not 2022 rules. They don't understand that withholding information or spinnng it in some way no longer flies.
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sequoia
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Wed, Jan 12 2022, 2:21 pm
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We don’t need journalists as such anymore. In a situation where regular citizens can’t make their voices heard, journalists are equally powerless. See: Kazakhstan in the past week.
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