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It’s kind of funny how so many supposedly open minded people who thrive on questioning authority seem to all just fall into line when it comes to Covid.
I really wish the “are you an expert? No? I well than shut up and fall in line” argument would die in a fire. It is essential to be intellectually curious. It’s essential to question authority. In fact, it is vital to for both to be encouraged. Both science and democracy depend on it.
The more people say “shut up and listen to ‘the experts’” the more I get skeptical. True experts don’t derive their powers through appeals to authority. They get their powers by being humble and knowing they barely know anything. The science is never settled. Question everything.
What’s funny to me is that not everything evokes this much scrutiny as vaccines. Why do relatively few people care about what they’re putting into their bodies via the products they find at the grocery store vs a jab in their arms?
When they are (GMOs, Beyond Meat) you do see a similar reaction.
Do you think there’s some forum deep in the bowels of academia where immunologist and virologists are neck-deep in discussions about cryptographic hash functions?
I’m sure these threads have a huge selection bias because they become so toxic so quickly, but the quality of discussion on HN for anything Covid is one of the most confidently wrong places on the internet.
https://news.yahoo.com/vaccine-misinformation-spawns-pure-bl...