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Hidden behind all the memeing is a sad truth of the world all of you refuse to face

Humans value the appearance of competence over actual competence. An actor in a lab coat is trusted more than an actual scientist because the actor has spent years of his life appearing to be what he is not, and the scientist is too busy practicing science to worry about appearances

It is why we have a racist reality tv show actor as president

And none of you will take responsibility for your part

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dynamoMaus@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
You have no idea whether people here take responsibility or do you assume this because nobody else points out this highly simplified analysis?

Humans value the appearance of competence over actual competence.

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- Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Just because it’s simple doesn’t mean people accept it or act to change their behaviors on it
  
  And every facet of life reflects this. The highest paid aren’t the most competent, but the ones with a carefully cultivated appearance of competence
  
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lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

all of you refuse to face

Stop assuming.

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- Angry_Autist@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Ok have you personally taken responsibility for the fact that your media consumption has made your worldview delusional? Nope? Ok then I am not making an assumption, I am stating human nature
  
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  - lvxferre@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    
    Ok have you personally taken responsibility for the fact that your media consumption has made your worldview delusional?
    
    This is a loaded question on the same level as “did you stop beating your wife? Yes or no?”.
    
    But let’s bite: yes.
    
    I come from a scientific background. And you don’t get to keep delusions about something when reality is making you interact with that thing over and over, regardless of the origin of said delusions, as soon as you step into the uni. And one of the things I often talk with people is how science is misrepresented in media, specially after that clown of the former president of my country started babbling about Ivermectin*.
    
    And, due to the nature of the content of this community, I expect at least some of the other people in this comm to be in the same situation as me - to be from a scientific background (or even scientists themselves) and to try to spread awareness on how media misrepresents science, the scientific method, and scientists.
    
    Unless you’re decontextualising the whole thing to talk about media-based delusions in general, even if the context screams “regarding science”.
    
    (Or perhaps you’ll try to change goalposts and say something like "ackshyually, taking responsibility is something else lol lmao.)
    
    Nope? Ok then I am not making an assumption,
    
    Even if your assumption was true (it is not), it would be still an assumption. You’re still vomiting certainty about something you cannot reliably know, such as what all individuals in a whole group of people do or don’t.
    
    I am stating human nature
    
    I think that both of us know that you’re bullshitting.
    
    *just to point out another assumption you’re voicing in your comment: “It is why we have a racist reality tv show actor as president”. Why do you think everybody here is American?
    
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