Most people believe shit without checking. Even I forget to use my brain frequently. I used to believe in the market place of ideas, but that got millions dead of COVID and fascists winning on platforms they completely lied about, so I don’t think the market works.
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Mickey7@lemmy.world 6 days agoYou totally missed the point. If someone posted that and if you were capable of thinking for yourself you would research it on your own. And you would then be able to post a link supporting your position. Do you want to possibly change the position of the person and others in the same mind set making the original post or do you just want to censor them. Censorship is what causes the divide. Both sides of an issue being posted causes people to think and hopefully come together.
zea_64@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
ieatpillowtags@lemm.ee 6 days ago
“Research it on my own”? By doing what? Running clinical trials? We have experts as a society for a reason.
You’re probably the kind of person who thinks it’s a massive government overreach that you’re forced to wear a seatbelt.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 6 days ago
You don’t need to be a scientist to research medical things. There are multiple sources that will provide information that you can evaluate for yourself
cx40@programming.dev 5 days ago
The unfortunate reality is that most people don’t have the skills required to critically read scientific literature.
Mickey7@lemmy.world 5 days ago
It takes time to search terms and figure out what it really being said. But I’d rather take the time then to live in a hive mind that TELLS me what to think