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  • balderdash@lemmy.ziptoScience Memes@mander.xyzPublic trust
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    4 months ago

    Okay, what about when there is a lack of consensus? When you have scientists who, for example, argue that the virus came from the Wuhan lab whereas the narrative being told is that that’s crazy. This is the problem I have with people in this thread assuming that everyone who isn’t immediately on board is dumb, delusional, conspiratorial, etc. We’re not talking about flat Earth theory here; it’s not that simple.


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    4 months ago

    Holy shit, a reasonable comment that doesn’t just assume the other half of the country are idiots.

    People don’t know what to believe and are skeptical for good reason (some historical, some present). Time and time again we’ve seen our institutions fails us. We see blatant corruption that the elites don’t even bother to hide (e.g. corporate capture). And we see freedoms eroded in times of crisis (e.g. Patriot Act). I’m not saying we should be conspiratorial about doctors or science. But reasonable people on both sides of the aisle see what’s happening to our institutions and this has knock on effects.


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    4 months ago

    99% of medicine is throwing shit at the wall to see what sticks.

    Social distancing was an easy way to make it less likely to spread

    I’m just going to keep copy and pasting in this thread: This was not communicated to the public in the beginning. Recommendations were stated definitively (i.e., without the qualification that we don’t really know what to do yet) and then latter revised. This erodes public trust.