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I hate that the extreme polarity of things right now keeps us from having the important conversations surrounding the kernels of truth within people’s mistrust and dissatisfaction.

It is a fact that the government has made a habit of lying to people. It is a fact that the cover of medical experimentation has been used to justify atrocities against minorities within the last 100 years.

However, it is not true that @JoeTruth1488 on 4Chan is likely to have all the answers to a conspiracy in plain sight. It is not true that InfoWars is spitting facts while everyone else is out to get you.

I can understand the mistrust of the system, but I can’t understand the conclusion that some anonymous yahoo with no inside perspective somehow has the resources to have figured it all out.

I have known a ton of people like this. The hardest part of dealing with it is that sometimes they are right. It's typically a case where they came to the correct conclusion but arrived there by faulty logic and/or false information.

All they will ever recognize is that the were right, doesn't matter why or how. They never actually learned any lesson, they'll ignore the myriad other cases where they were absolutely wrong, while they continue to use the same baseless methodology to form future opinions and conclusions.

I forever will associate "do your research" in this type of context with Flat Earth conspiracy theorists. I know a ton of people who are like this.

Good morning, good afternoon, good evening, wherever you may be, it's C.C. here, uh, Chris, from New York, Westchester County...

Earth is flat, space is fake, and I have to make videos in my car because my wife doesn't let me make them in the house anymore because even she thinks I'm a fucking moron.

People like this don't think they missed anything, they think it's a deliberate cover-up. Yeah, and I mean like the average dude thinks that.

Being anti vax is dumb. But we do need to acknowledge that what people are exposed to through legacy media isn't all of science. They dont normally expose you to information that tells you things like the best cure is prevention or that so much of the food in the US is abysmal and needs to be regulated

"Oh no no! They didn't miss that information. They're ignoring that information because big pharma something something..... "

There are lots of independent theoreticians who have done independent work, then brought it out to a scientific community and it's sparked a ton of interest.

And I do mean "independent theoretician" as in a respectful euphemism to "mad bastards", although I prefer the latter. You could also use "a touch too inspired".

Okay well this guy was an actual academic, but the fox breeder came to mind first. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dmitry_Belyayev_(zoologist)

Then three was the woman who mapped the entire sea floor by fucking drawing it painstakingly herself from like sonar scan results. She's essentially who discovered good proof of tectonic plates. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marie_Tharp

Tharp's discovery of the Mid-Atlantic Ridge caused a paradigm shift in earth science that led to the acceptance of the theories of plate tectonics and continental drift.

Okay well yeah she was an academic as well but those are just two massive names I can think of rn. And loads of us on Lemmy are actually academic, technically.

But anyway, basically the argument in the comic could've been used against those people, and definitely was against the plate tectonic lady.

Hell, the guy who figured out surgeons were killing patients but the morgue-full just because they weren't washing their hands tried desperately convincing people to wash their hands and doctors just kept mocking him like "haha, as if it was our faults the patients died, right, yeah, tiny little bits of corpses on our hands, yea, haha, good one, Semmelweiss".

Dude became rather aggravated that he'd figured it out and no-one listened. Ended up in an asulym and died of sepsis, the very thing he fought against so hard.

https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2015/01/12/375663920/the-doctor-who-championed-hand-washing-and-saved-women-s-lives

I feel that guy. Can share his frustration.

Assuming this is in response to our MAGAt administration revoking authorization for children and healthy adults under 65?

Every once in a very long while a miracle can happen, like when some people called out drinking so much milk daily couldn't be good.

The same top doctors and scientists responsible for perpetuating systemic biases in modern medicine against women and POC?

The same top doctors and scientists responsible for diagnosing 16x more boys than girls with ADHD because of antiquated diagnostic criteria that were solely based on white teenage boys?

The same top doctors and scientists who treat every woman with abdominal pain as a drama queen while they suffer from ruptured appendices and endometriosis?

The same top doctors and scientists who treat chronically ill patients as drug seeking hypochondriacs instead as people who have been failed by a medical system that does not treat them as reliable witnesses to their own bodies?

There's a certain kind of privilege to be able to hold such confidence in the medical system without having to worry about medical gaslighting and abuse, and then use it to ridicule people who have been subjected to mistreatment.

Make no mistake, I'm pro-vaccination and pro-science. But scientists and doctors are human with human biases, and it is reflected in the quality of care received by people who are the subject of implicit and explicit biases.

Top of their fields are still human. They have flaws just like the rest of us and the ones who can boast continuous ethical integrity throughout their presumably long careers are very few, if any.

Even though they are the best in their line of work, no domain is spared by deviant interests such as corporate, political or even personal.

And though unlikely the average person will unlock the secrets of the universe, it's still possible, even if they won't realize it at all. Dismissing the plausibility fully is in itself a flawed decision made in part by our own lacking abilities overall.

I can’t imagine how many wives are living this exact scenario