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As I already said, skepticism is good. Flat-earther's and the like aren't skeptics - quite the reverse.
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Ok, that's rather uncharitable. Entering discussion in good faith is the only way. You have to initially presume it's skepticism, before making judgement.
Alex Jones with "turning the frogs gay" is a great example of mass hubris. Everyone took the piss, wrote about the sorry state of his mind and societies chosen conspiracy 'news' etc ... turns out he was right. Atrazine levels were elevated and frogs were switching gender.
miro_o
Yeah, but you can't know what you don't know. i.e. You can test for your own bias only to a point. All your blindspots are belong to us
Better to use energy understanding (rather than being understood).
Conspiracies as thought exercises are healthy as fuck!
The idea haemophiliacs were routinely given infected blood for years — would have been a conspiracy theory until recently. The same for the status of the sub prime mortgage markets etc.
#pretzeltheory
#hollowearth
#snownazis