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Haha i am a person who jumps to conclusions, and i actually bought my most recent car after 1.5 visits to dealerships (i tried BMW but the dealer was rude to me

Haha i am a person who jumps to conclusions, and i actually bought my most recent car after 1.5 visits to dealerships (i tried BMW but the dealer was rude to me so i left before i actually found out anything, and went straight to Volvo and i am super happy with my new S60). So i think i am qualified for an opinion :D One thing that hits me is conspiracy theories. Although i am not buying into any of the currently circulating ones (covid deliberately invented by Chinese, mind control chips and 5G, faked Moon landings), i understand people who do. Actually, hiding link between cell phones and cancer was a very viable idea through ~mid-2000s when cell phones became just way too numerous so if the link was true, it would become impossible to hide (and this is about the time when i heard of this theory a lot, then it gradually subsided, i haven't really heard of it in any serious manner in the last 10 years). After all, we know that they quite deliberately denied addictiveness of tobacco? They denied harm from leaded gasoline and lead water pipes? There is so much nasty crap authorities concealed or actively denied because they made money on it. They still deny how dangerous and addictive sugar is. Many of them still deny global warming.

kbelder 5y ago
Abiogenic origin of oil in the Earth's crust. There's no strong scientific evidence for it, so I can't bring myself to believe it; but I can't bring myself to dismiss it, either. It somehow strikes a cord in me as a reasonable thing. I have to keep telling myself "It's probably not true," but if it ever turns out to be proven, I'd be shouting "I KNEW IT!"
- djmips 5y ago
  It's related to the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect where you read something you are well studied in and you find it riddled with errors then you read something else you know nothing about, like say the origin of oil and you are more open to terrible mistakes. But then again I do think about how past generations had their own established theories, like 'the ether', or a geocentric universe only to have those be laughed at by our current understanding. But all that is more of romantic notion that I might be on to something that science has totally missed a romantic version of the Gell Man amnesia effect. Basically we can't know everything and have to trust something.

kbelder 5y ago

Abiogenic origin of oil in the Earth's crust. There's no strong scientific evidence for it, so I can't bring myself to believe it; but I can't bring myself to dismiss it, either. It somehow strikes a cord in me as a reasonable thing. I have to keep telling myself "It's probably not true," but if it ever turns out to be proven, I'd be shouting "I KNEW IT!"

djmips 5y ago
It's related to the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect where you read something you are well studied in and you find it riddled with errors then you read something else you know nothing about, like say the origin of oil and you are more open to terrible mistakes. But then again I do think about how past generations had their own established theories, like 'the ether', or a geocentric universe only to have those be laughed at by our current understanding. But all that is more of romantic notion that I might be on to something that science has totally missed a romantic version of the Gell Man amnesia effect. Basically we can't know everything and have to trust something.