Dr Ros Jones sensible viewpoint on jabbing the youth...
Heed Well.
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 7:01, Reply)
Unless this is satire...Is this satire? Poe's law and all that
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 7:23, Reply)
One doctor says something they agree with? Great, then that overrules the thousands of doctors who say the opposite, because *they're* obviously wrong!
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 8:14, Reply)
but there is this kind of odd assumption in anti-vaxxers, like 9-11 conspiricy theorists, that because their position is contrary to authority or orthodoxy, that therefore it's more credible. It's "most people are against us, therefore we must be right". That these dickwits, youtube jocks, fringe scientists often talking outside their field (like the retired paediatrician above giving her opinion on epidemiology and public health policy) who they turn to, are somehow not out to exploit them and generate hits or a profile for themselves, while actual scientists and experts are. It's not an intellectual position, it's an "Us-who-know-the-real-truth" club that you join, and it attracts the kind of people whose personality that appeals to.
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 10:16, Reply)
My partner's step-sister is one roll away from going full tinfoil. She occasionally asks searching questions about stuff I deal with at work (pharmaceutical manufacturing) like "but how do you know what's in vaccines?", which is fair enough and she is quite right to challenge assumptions. The problem is that she doesn't subject her own views/opinions to the same scrutiny. So maybe it's down to a lack of self-awareness.
I try to avoid her, though. Last time I saw her, she asked if I could get hold of some Ivermectin because Joe Rogan was taking it.
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 10:47, Reply)
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 14:00, Reply)
That's the other attribute that is astonishingly common in the conspiracy-minded: extreme gullibility. It's like they're overcompensating for being credulous fools by projecting it onto everyone else.
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 14:57, Reply)
Fuck off you dumb cunt. It depresses me beyond words how the dumbest fuckwits are convinced they are smart.
You're a dangerous moron in case you hadn't worked that out yet
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 7:44, Reply)
have been all about watching people go insane on social media.
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 11:19, Reply)
and there's always been a flow of people getting into conspiracy theory and anti-vax/anti-science/woowoo bollocks. It's more mainstream now, but I imagine the ratio of vaguely sane to batshit has remained fairly stable.
I have no evidence to back this up, obviously.
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 17:19, Reply)
But rather the weak-willed and hypersuggestible members of contemporary society are significantly more vulnerable to fuckwit conspiracy theories and the like thanks in no small part to the prevalence of social media.
Before the turn of the millennium, (besides a moronity of conspiracy theory enthusiasts meeting up in church halls/on usenet/etc) people's general level of fuckwittery didn't really exceed old wife's tales about taking hot baths as an alternative to the morning after pill and so on.
But these days, nonsense like Qanon, 5G mind control projects, etc are being pumped into their brains en masse by the world's largest gathering of neckbeards.
There aren't more of them. Just a significantly larger audience.
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 20:08, Reply)
...have you been a moron this entire time or is that just a recent thing?
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 9:00, Reply)
you total fucking bellend
you cunt
you moronic arsehole twat
you stupid fucking cockend
fuck off
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 9:01, Reply)
"This is a setup, she is pretending to be on our side while claiming 90% of the UK is jabbed which is aimed to make us feel small through the power of positive reinforcement because she pretends to be coming from a good place. Reverse psychology."
Everything is a conspiracy to these thick nutters.
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 12:57, Reply)
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 17:21, Reply)
You're already on the list.
-o +a
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 14:12, Reply)
Nah, this one's just tedious. They didn't even stick around to defend their viewpoint.
The one from Wednesday is far more entertaining:
b3ta.com/links/1578320#post1578335
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 16:16, Reply)
Well you've not been around much lately. We've got to get our entertainment where we can.
(, Mon 13 Dec 2021, 17:22, Reply)