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This is not scientific research, it's chronic fatigue researchers getting hate mail. Also, it's not activists, it's random crackpots. Edit: look, read the arti
by throwaway5752 8y ago
This is not scientific research, it's chronic fatigue researchers getting hate mail.
Also, it's not activists, it's random crackpots.
Edit: look, read the article, and then downvote me if you must. I am sure that online activists in many areas are reducing public discussion. I'm not addressing the subject in general; just this article. Specifically, the article talks about a very particular narrow, topic (chronic fatigue syndrome and research indicating that it's psychosomatic) and doesn't talk much beyond one actual activist in that area, Tuller. The title would have been better as, "CFR activist harasses CFR researchers".
Edit: could hardly get downvoted more than I have been already, but the irony that "activists" are silencing people is rich. Maybe anti-activist activists are activists, too.
- 5trokerac3 8y agoIf you've ever spent any time around "activists" you'd realize there's not much of a difference.
- antihero 8y agoWhat nonsense is this? I know many activists and they are dedicated, smart, passionate, clued up people with a social conscience to be envied.
- 5trokerac3 8y agoIn my experience, sane people volunteer for a cause they believe in. "Activists" grab a megaphone and disrupt any gathering of people who disagree with them on said cause, because they've convinced themselves that they are morally superior for their beliefs.
- maze-le 8y agoI think you are confusing 'activists' with 'agitators'.
- 5trokerac3 8y agoI think agitators use the euphemism "activist".
- maxxxxx 8y agoLet’s just agree that “activist” covers a very wide spectrum and doesn’t mean much by itself.
- maxxxxx 8y agoYou can be an activist and crackpot. These things are orthogonal.
- lawnchair_larry 8y agoProbably correlated, even
- coldtea 8y ago>Also, it's not activists, it's random crackpots. The difference being?
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