Do you really think the doctors know what they are talking about? Fucking really?
They are as indoctrinated, ignorant, and brainwashed as yourself. They know absolutely nothing.
Everything they "know", they have been told by the pharmaceutical industry.
Doctors are nothing more than pharmaceutical pill pushing industry puppets.
So every doctor and scientist complacent? Every. Single. One? Seriously?
Honestly? Yeah. Unless you meant "complicit," not "complacent," which would imply - at least to me - a level of malice, or at least intent, which I don't think is the case.
Look at the world we live in. I mean the Western world, the best humanity has to offer at the moment. I'm typing on a device literally not physically connected to another device, which is literally not physically connected to another device, to send electrical signals that travel through an incredibly dense network topology to eventually reach a server somewhere, so that you can read it later - and all that nonsense happens in... a second? Less, generally?
I "know" a lot about how all that works. I'm familiar with the OSI model, I took a bunch of classes on computer networking, have a BS in comp sci. The thing is, though, I'm not a hardware guy - never have been. Just not my gig. I sort of understand how computers work, on the metal: I know enough about assembly (the programming language one step up from literal 1's and 0's) to be able to probably follow a conversation about registers and coding "on the metal."
But ultimately? If someone along the way got their facts wrong, or I just misheard, it's entirely possible that I could be going through life with a complete misunderstanding of all sorts of things. Personally I don't like to be wrong, and I like knowing a bunch of stuff, so I try to corroborate things, research stuff; but most people? Most people just take what you tell them and run with it.
Eight years of education... just because you went to a school and were taught things, for one, doesn't mean you retained all of that, or that all of it was correct. Hell I still run into people today who think that your brain starts dying at 25, when I'd heard about a study that debunked that maybe 10 years ago. I'm sure there are probably physicians today who think that, as well, who had their education in the 90's and are still practicing (presuming they aren't in that particular field, anyway).
The point here is that unless you uncover the knowledge yourself, directly, you are relying on someone else to inform you about the nature of reality. That's not inherently bad - there's a ton of shit to know, and we can't all live forever - but it does mean that you need to think more carefully and critically about the things people tell you are true. I generally concur with the notion that someone with a solid education will probably be more right than wrong about things in their field, but things like vaccines... if there's a potential ulterior motive?
And keep in mind, too, that a lot of stuff we "know" today is based on statistics. In the sense that people take a study of, say, twenty people, and make conclusions based on that sample. The "p < .05" thing is completely and utterly arbitrary, and if you study statistics at all, the more and more terrifying that becomes. Because you can twist and torture data to make it say a lot of different things... and if your paycheck is being paid by someone who really wants p to be less than .05, well... if not wealth, then the status and prestige it brings. Most people are easily bought.
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2calculated ago
Of course. Only reason anyone would support vaccines is because they think doctors are infallible and will never lie to you! Appeal to authority.
Fattynextdoor ago
So every doctor is a complete and utter liar?
Every. Single. Doctor. In the world? Fucking really?
qwop ago
Do you really think the doctors know what they are talking about? Fucking really? They are as indoctrinated, ignorant, and brainwashed as yourself. They know absolutely nothing.
Everything they "know", they have been told by the pharmaceutical industry.
Doctors are nothing more than pharmaceutical pill pushing industry puppets.
Fattynextdoor ago
Right so those, what, eight years of schooling means nothing aye? You're implying you know more than a doctor despite no medical background.
Your opinions aren't facts, get your tin foil hat off and stop insulting everyone's intelligence.
So every doctor and scientist complacent? Every. Single. One? Seriously?
ThirteenthZodiac ago
Honestly? Yeah. Unless you meant "complicit," not "complacent," which would imply - at least to me - a level of malice, or at least intent, which I don't think is the case.
Look at the world we live in. I mean the Western world, the best humanity has to offer at the moment. I'm typing on a device literally not physically connected to another device, which is literally not physically connected to another device, to send electrical signals that travel through an incredibly dense network topology to eventually reach a server somewhere, so that you can read it later - and all that nonsense happens in... a second? Less, generally?
I "know" a lot about how all that works. I'm familiar with the OSI model, I took a bunch of classes on computer networking, have a BS in comp sci. The thing is, though, I'm not a hardware guy - never have been. Just not my gig. I sort of understand how computers work, on the metal: I know enough about assembly (the programming language one step up from literal 1's and 0's) to be able to probably follow a conversation about registers and coding "on the metal."
But ultimately? If someone along the way got their facts wrong, or I just misheard, it's entirely possible that I could be going through life with a complete misunderstanding of all sorts of things. Personally I don't like to be wrong, and I like knowing a bunch of stuff, so I try to corroborate things, research stuff; but most people? Most people just take what you tell them and run with it.
Eight years of education... just because you went to a school and were taught things, for one, doesn't mean you retained all of that, or that all of it was correct. Hell I still run into people today who think that your brain starts dying at 25, when I'd heard about a study that debunked that maybe 10 years ago. I'm sure there are probably physicians today who think that, as well, who had their education in the 90's and are still practicing (presuming they aren't in that particular field, anyway).
The point here is that unless you uncover the knowledge yourself, directly, you are relying on someone else to inform you about the nature of reality. That's not inherently bad - there's a ton of shit to know, and we can't all live forever - but it does mean that you need to think more carefully and critically about the things people tell you are true. I generally concur with the notion that someone with a solid education will probably be more right than wrong about things in their field, but things like vaccines... if there's a potential ulterior motive?
And keep in mind, too, that a lot of stuff we "know" today is based on statistics. In the sense that people take a study of, say, twenty people, and make conclusions based on that sample. The "p < .05" thing is completely and utterly arbitrary, and if you study statistics at all, the more and more terrifying that becomes. Because you can twist and torture data to make it say a lot of different things... and if your paycheck is being paid by someone who really wants p to be less than .05, well... if not wealth, then the status and prestige it brings. Most people are easily bought.