Especially the mention that the woman is also an anti-vaxxer reveals the true nature of this story. It's to play the public's opinion.
I wish/. would stay politically neutral, we already have enough rants here when certain politicians are mentioned. Please don't join in what i'd call 'the big divide' - the polarization of society. Please just don't. And relaying random facebook hypes is.
It's not about the story itself that makes this news so colored, it's about the bi
That's the scary thing. These people are probably normally abled, somewhere near the middle of the bell curve. The human mind seems to have a weakness for mass delusion, e.g. organized religion.
Sigh. I remember when Slashdot was both open minded enough to consider arguments like these and fairly secular, with religious beliefs being ranked correctly as pretty far below those based on evidence and logic.
"The human mind seems to have a weakness for mass delusion, e.g. organized religion."
That's not a ranking, any more than "all white people are racists" is a ranking. "Open-minded" is just an appeal to "I got away with it before, why can't I still do that"? Societies change, and we now have to treat people differently than our so called previous "open-minded" times.
"The human mind seems to have a weakness for mass delusion, e.g. organized religion."
That's not a ranking, any more than "all white people are racists" is a ranking. "Open-minded" is just an appeal to "I got away with it before, why can't I still do that"? Societies change, and we now have to treat people differently than our so called previous "open-minded" times.
That sounds like an especially fine sort of bullshit. What an open mind means in actual reality is that you can distinguish between questions that are scientifically settled and ones that are not. In an advanced form, an open mind can even deal with uncertainty in scientific findings.
Exactly. When I'm working a problem that other researchers have attempted to address but were unable to figure out - I like to shift through the 'knowns' and ponder what the effect would be if we were 'wrong,' and how that might manifest, regardless as to whether I have reason to suspect the 'known.' I've solved some entrenched problems that way. My thoughts are that my colleagues are professionals and I should trust their data. What I should not trust are their assumptions, because if their assumptions were true, they'd likely have figured out the issue already.
Mass-hysteria (Score:-1, Troll)
Seems the propaganda has come to /. too.
Especially the mention that the woman is also an anti-vaxxer reveals the true nature of this story. It's to play the public's opinion.
I wish /. would stay politically neutral, we already have enough rants here when certain politicians are mentioned. Please don't join in what i'd call 'the big divide' - the polarization of society. Please just don't. And relaying random facebook hypes is.
It's not about the story itself that makes this news so colored, it's about the bi
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Especially the mention that the woman is also an anti-vaxxer reveals the true nature of this story. It's to play the public's opinion.
You don't think that it's relevant to point out that someone who is on an anti-mask crusade is also mentally handicapped?
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That's the scary thing. These people are probably normally abled, somewhere near the middle of the bell curve. The human mind seems to have a weakness for mass delusion, e.g. organized religion.
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Sigh. I remember when Slashdot was both open minded enough to consider arguments like these and fairly secular, with religious beliefs being ranked correctly as pretty far below those based on evidence and logic.
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"The human mind seems to have a weakness for mass delusion, e.g. organized religion."
That's not a ranking, any more than "all white people are racists" is a ranking. "Open-minded" is just an appeal to "I got away with it before, why can't I still do that"? Societies change, and we now have to treat people differently than our so called previous "open-minded" times.
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"The human mind seems to have a weakness for mass delusion, e.g. organized religion."
That's not a ranking, any more than "all white people are racists" is a ranking. "Open-minded" is just an appeal to "I got away with it before, why can't I still do that"? Societies change, and we now have to treat people differently than our so called previous "open-minded" times.
That sounds like an especially fine sort of bullshit. What an open mind means in actual reality is that you can distinguish between questions that are scientifically settled and ones that are not. In an advanced form, an open mind can even deal with uncertainty in scientific findings.
Re:Mass-hysteria (Score:2)