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Its not that I am sure of my answers and I do respect different opinions and I even welcome skepticism - can we ever be sure about something at all? But I wish they would take my skepticism as serious as mine, but I don't feel like this is the case.

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These are interesting times that's for sure. There is too much information circulating around for an individual to make sense of it on their own. I'd wager the majority of people are just going with what the people closest to them believe, and smaller subset are choosing sources of information to follow. A small minority will really look into the details, and even then one depends on others to be doing the actual research, which depends on funding from institutions, so even then it's about trusting institutions.

I think what we're seeing is huge disagreements on the validity of the institutions themselves. We just experienced four years of defiance from one side, distrusting government, and now that same side is asking everyone to fall inline. This is what I believe is at the core of the disagreement.

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