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sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks agoScience derision, has been around for forever, look up the history of anti-vaccination leagues in the UK and US in response to the small pox vaccine in the 1800s. There were antivax parents at my primary school in the 90s too. They were just in pockets of small communities before, and therefore wielded less power. Social media has allowed them to gather into one town square and allowed them to reinforce each other’s delusions, amplify their voices, spread (aptly) like a virus, and most importantly tie it to a political/culture war.
Or it’s the consequences of lead and heavy metals poisoning finally coming to their natural conclusion regarding the function of the human brain.
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
unfortunately, that is a pedantic and unnecessary expansion of both what the meme and my comment succinctly stated; you are apparently still missing the point of the actual meme and my comment: the specifically rapid public shift from science appreciation to scientific derision.
I’m happy you’re finally learning about this, but please make it clear that you have discovered something new for yourself and the reason you are publicly sharing it, rather than pretending to bestow knowledge upon me as if I asked for you to make a perfectly understandable meme 40 times longer and less clear.
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Then let me be succinct: There was never any “science appreciation” among the general public, and if you think there was, you’re in a bubble. A specific, most likely higher educated and most likely American bubble. You’re just hearing voices outside the bubble now.
Condescending comments like your reply might contribute to the science derision though, just saying.
Cgers@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 weeks ago
Nah man, this is recency bias, pre internet science was generally well regarded and respected. There is empirical evidence to support this even over just the last 10 years.
pewresearch.org/…/americans-trust-in-scientists-p…
Varyk@sh.itjust.works 3 weeks ago
“There was never any “science appreciation” among the general public”
you are demonstrably incorrect and your confident ignorance is insulting and harmful in general.
but here I am, being the guardrail to your misinformation again:
less than a decade ago, measles was eradicated from the US.
since then, vaccinations and science in general have been maligned and you can see in national polls that scientific authority is less respected than it was a decade ago to the point that measles has been brought back and is now killing children again.
because in less than a decade, science appreciation has turned into scientific derision.
you are completely wrong here, and you are not helping anything by spreading misinformation and flaunting your ignorance of the matter.
value-added comments are what is needed.
If your comments does not add value, as your three have not in this thread, then they are value-less and should be with held.
you are adrift.
sigmaklimgrindset@sopuli.xyz 3 weeks ago
Measles vaccinations being down can also be linked to mandatory vaccination laws being taken off the books across states during the last decade. It says nothing about the inherent levels of scientific education of the parents doing so.
Previously, parents were mandated by law to have their children vaccinated at birth or to attend schools. We don’t know if they would have opted to vaccinate their kids if it wasn’t mandatory.
Again, very condescending reply from you, considering correlation /= causation is a basic rule of research.