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You imply the world has only two kinds of people: the "people who never question the dominant narrative" and "dumb flat earth conspiracists". It is an extremely

You imply the world has only two kinds of people: the "people who never question the dominant narrative" and "dumb flat earth conspiracists". It is an extremely low resolution view of the world, and you are doing yourself a disservice by ignoring the spectrum in between (or you are simply propagandizing). Do you know that PhDs are among the most vaccine hesitant?

EdwardDiego 5y ago
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But not their own facts. Speaking of, do you have a source for your last statement? I'd be interesting in reading it :)
- mdorazio 5y ago
  Here you go: https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/news/news-stories/2021/july/covid-hesitancy.html https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/news/news-stories/2021/july/cov...
- bad_username 5y ago
  There is no such thing as immutable "The Facts" or "The Science". You are not adhering to the process and spirit of science if you are never questioning the consensus. I will spare you from the Copernicus analogies. This is especially true when "The Facts" are not a controlled lab experiment or a logical derivation, but real time data collected in a chaotic enviromnent of the pandemic by a wide variety of actors with different level of methodological rigor and - please do not deny this - often political and financial motivations. It is not the way of science to put such Facts on the pedestal and refuse to question them just because they fall out of line. The study you asked for (it's a preprint): https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.20.21260795v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.20.21260795v...
notahacker 5y ago
Nope. The OP pointed out that the author believes in some very obviously suspect things, which may not make him a reliable source for information on the education system (even if the article corresponds perfectly to the "why can't everybody be taught to read by their parents and then learn everything else through autodidacticism like me" viewpoint which is popular here) Ironically, the original article is the one trying to divide people into thoughtless drones that never question the dominant narrative and other people like the author himself. Got to say, that if mindless acceptance of an extraordinary claim made by (checks) a programmer's blog is the sort of critical thinking that can be expected from those too independent for the schooling system, I'll settle for being a mindless drone (PhDs being the most vaccine hesitancy is something of a tangent, though it doesn't really support the contention in the original argument that education breeds only conformity, or say anything about whether people with relevant PhDs' myriad of reasons for being more cautious about novel vaccines has anything to do with the credulity involved in believing vaccines have killed 25k people despite the lack of evidence)
avgcorrection 5y ago
> Do you know that PhDs are among the most vaccine hesitant? Kind of ironic to elevate the most educated as being the most independent-minded given the topic of this thread.

EdwardDiego 5y ago

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. But not their own facts. Speaking of, do you have a source for your last statement? I'd be interesting in reading it :)

mdorazio 5y ago
Here you go: https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/news/news-stories/2021/july/covid-hesitancy.html https://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/news/news-stories/2021/july/cov...
bad_username 5y ago
There is no such thing as immutable "The Facts" or "The Science". You are not adhering to the process and spirit of science if you are never questioning the consensus. I will spare you from the Copernicus analogies. This is especially true when "The Facts" are not a controlled lab experiment or a logical derivation, but real time data collected in a chaotic enviromnent of the pandemic by a wide variety of actors with different level of methodological rigor and - please do not deny this - often political and financial motivations. It is not the way of science to put such Facts on the pedestal and refuse to question them just because they fall out of line. The study you asked for (it's a preprint): https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.20.21260795v1 https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.07.20.21260795v...

notahacker 5y ago

Nope. The OP pointed out that the author believes in some very obviously suspect things, which may not make him a reliable source for information on the education system (even if the article corresponds perfectly to the "why can't everybody be taught to read by their parents and then learn everything else through autodidacticism like me" viewpoint which is popular here) Ironically, the original article is the one trying to divide people into thoughtless drones that never question the dominant narrative and other people like the author himself. Got to say, that if mindless acceptance of an extraordinary claim made by (checks) a programmer's blog is the sort of critical thinking that can be expected from those too independent for the schooling system, I'll settle for being a mindless drone (PhDs being the most vaccine hesitancy is something of a tangent, though it doesn't really support the contention in the original argument that education breeds only conformity, or say anything about whether people with relevant PhDs' myriad of reasons for being more cautious about novel vaccines has anything to do with the credulity involved in believing vaccines have killed 25k people despite the lack of evidence)

avgcorrection 5y ago

> Do you know that PhDs are among the most vaccine hesitant? Kind of ironic to elevate the most educated as being the most independent-minded given the topic of this thread.