There's this girl I know on fb. She posts a lot of political and religious stuff. Sometimes I comment politely on them when I disagree and express my objections. She deletes my comments every time.
Yesterday she asked what people thought about vaccines. She didn't express her views on it at all. It was just a question. I made two comments against the anti-vaccine people and within 5 minutes she deleted them both.
Here's what I said:
I guess she prefers her echo chamber.
Yesterday she asked what people thought about vaccines. She didn't express her views on it at all. It was just a question. I made two comments against the anti-vaccine people and within 5 minutes she deleted them both.
Here's what I said:
Quote:As far as I know, it's psuedoscience.
When you research odd claims like "vaccines will give you autism" or "naturalpathic/homeopathic medicine works" etc, any sort of weird claims like that, you need to read both sides of the debate on such things. And you have to read one side's view directly from themselves, and not the other side's interpretation of the opposition because it could very well be a strawman they've made.
In my experience, look up these subjects on Wikipedia. That gives you a more balanced interpretation of such things and they give you references from which you can follow up on for more investigation.
I think people fall for such things but they've already had a bias to want to believe it so they never really investigated the opposing views fairly.
Studying logic helps too.
I guess she prefers her echo chamber.
My ignore list
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
"The lord doesn't work in mysterious ways, but in ways that are indistinguishable from his nonexistence."
-- George Yorgo Veenhuyzen quoted by John W. Loftus in The End of Christianity (p. 103).
