• petrol_sniff_king@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    2 days ago

    I just want people to trust. Being skeptical and wanting to learn is perfectly fine, but also, people do go to school for these things for years, you know? Have a little a faith they aren’t lying to you.

    By “you” I just mean people generally, of course.

    • SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca
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      1 day ago

      Counterpoint: a group of MDs in Toronto published a peer-reviewed paper in 2020 claiming SARS/Cov2 was from outer space.

      MDs are not scientists. They pretend they are.

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        22 hours ago

        This is kind of the attitude I’m talking about.

        Is this story even notable? Like, how much attention is this even getting?

        I am not interested in propaganda that sews distrust in our institutions and collective efforts when I’ve already said that being skeptical is fine.

    • tetris11@feddit.uk
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      1 day ago

      You’re both spot on. We live in a deliberately low trust society with grief merchants heckling experts for the sole intention of division.

      I don’t know how we can get back to a high trust society, but it did exist once, and I think the first step to it is education and the reinstatement of the Fairness Doctrine in the media