• Kinetix@lemmy.ca
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    3 years ago

    Seriously, go listen to that podcast. The questions I would have for you are - are you qualified to interpret any study done on any of this stuff? Are you an epidemiologist? A virologist? An anything-ist with the qualifications for understanding what’s garbage and what isn’t?

    Then why are you wasting your time with it?

    No layman should be looking at the studies and then spreading any part of them on social media. Not qualified.

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      3 years ago

      Now thats just anti-intellectualism. We shouldnt blindly believe what so-called experts on the media are telling us.

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        3 years ago

        No, you’re right, we listen to our medical professionals, who have informed us (and the media) what needs to be done to be safe.

        If you get COVID-19, you don’t go to social media for some intellectualism. You go to the clinic, the doctor, the hospital, or whatever is provided by experts in your area.

        I mention the podcast as it was a good one-off on the topic, by people who are qualified to discuss, on the topic of some of the ‘key’ Ivermectin ‘studies’ that are being referenced on social media that are making people do stupid shit like eat horse dewormer (first mention of this I’ve made to this point).

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        We shouldn’t believe anyone blindly. But this does not mean that random comments on social networks have similar credibility with papers published on Nature by PhDs and tenured professors.

        People have finite time and energy to research knowledge and focusing. Wasting everybody’s time debunking falsehoods or reading unreliable sources or debating wacky theories is anti-intellectualism.

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          3 years ago

          No one is suggesting that comments on social media are as credible as scientific papers. And nobody has to “waste time” debunking, its easy enough to ignore.

          Essentially, it sounds like you want all discussion of this topic to be banned.

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            3 years ago

            Essentially, it sounds like you want all discussion of this topic to be banned.

            Are you referring to me? That’s quite harsh.