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Comment by dc396

While I understand this position (i.e., https://xkcd.com/386/), it (along with an unholy union of the Internet, confirmation bias, pay-per-click, and echo chambers) appears to have contributed to an explosion in reality disconnection that is becoming actually threatening, e.g., there has been a surge in "vaccine hesitancy" for rabies vaccines in pets.

At some point, assertions like "[COVID] vaccines are ineffective" need to be challenged (which? over what time frame? where's the data?) or they become "everybody knows ...".

parent dc396 3 years ago

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