The key is, that for a lot of people reasoning and thinking is a hard work, because never learned it. I remember an interview with a MAGA voter about climate change and his response: “It’s a big lie, human beings can’t be the cause, because they are not capable of changing God’s creation”.
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GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I have no scientific education. I am still not retarded enough to believe any of the nonsensical conspiracies found online.
Could it be that the key here is media competence and not a doctors degree?
Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
autriyo@feddit.org 23 hours ago
Tbh, reasoning and thinking is hard work, even if you learned how to.
And it’s getting increasingly harder to find reliable information, so you have to check the sources of your sources. And at some point down the rabbit hole stuff gets real complex, and maybe, you still haven’t figured out what’s true…
So the layman has to trust someone, and in our age of disinformation, someone isn’t necessarily trustworthy. So between the day to day struggles and constant indoctrination, I get why people just hear what they want to hear. Still doesn’t excuse it though.
frunch@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Zoiks! 😵💫 I know people keep saying “we’re cooked” but I think I’m actually starting to feel the heat lately
Zerush@lemmy.ml 1 day ago
You can’t reasoning with people like these, even if they understand that the clima is changing, they say, it is Gods Will and we can do bothing to stop it. Business like usual. Yes, we are cooked because of these Australopithecus.
Engywuck@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
I think it’s more about keeping yourself curious and reading stuff form reliable sources than actually getting a degree, which makes little sense. (I’m a physicist, and I’m totally ignorant about physiology, for instance, so I have to trust “people who know”, and these aren’t usually found on crappy YT or TikTok videos).
expr@programming.dev 23 hours ago
It’s not talking about a doctorate, it’s talking about actually taking education (of all levels) seriously because education is the primary means by which a populace becomes in innoculated against mis/disinformation.
shawn1122@sh.itjust.works 18 hours ago
I know quite a few MAGA doctors so I can assure you that a medical degree is not protective.
justme@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
I think they refer to school education
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’ve worked with doctors who believe this shit. When this all kicked off, they immediately discarded their education to entrance the Fox dogma.
Area of study is definitely not the issue.
LemmyFeed@lemmy.dbzer0.com 15 hours ago
I’ve worked IT in healthcare and let me tell you, I’ve met some incredibly stupid doctors and learned just cause you’re a doctor doesn’t make you smart. And then I realized, there is someone at the bottom of every graduating class out there.
What do you call someone who almost failed out of medical school? Doctor.