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It is a dramatization of a real story, one that happened to be testified to in congress not long before the movie came out. Please take people in good faith.

kragen 4y ago
i don't think the grandparent poster is posting in bad faith, i just think they're getting their information about that real story from an intentionally unreliable source movies lie to you on purpose to manipulate your emotions there are lots of reliable information sources about pollution risks, like mmwr, the cochrane collaboration, msds, toxicology textbooks, wikipedia, epa assessments, and so on there is no need to make yourself dumber by making life decisions contingent on beliefs you acquired from movies
- bricemo 4y ago
  What in the movie was false?
  - kragen 4y ago
    this is a ridiculous question i am not going to subject myself to hours of manipulative propaganda for which truth is not even a consideration in order to write a 'rebuttal' nobody wants to read, thus implicitly affirming all the errors that i missed or that didn't seem important enough to mention dramatizations are works of fiction literally everything in them is false with the occasional exception every word, every facial expression, every event, every chemical reaction, every purchase, every article of clothing, every motivation the exceptions where they say something objectively true are enumerable; the falsehoods are not don't base your beliefs or life decisions on fiction finding out what is true and making good choices are hard enough without deliberately sabotaging the process
    - tremon 4y ago
      this is a ridiculous question I think it's a perfectly reasonable response to your assertion that "movies lie to you on purpose to manipulate your emotions" in order to defend the GP comment. If that's a ridiculous question, it's only because your assertion was equally ridiculous given the context of the thread.

kragen 4y ago

i don't think the grandparent poster is posting in bad faith, i just think they're getting their information about that real story from an intentionally unreliable source movies lie to you on purpose to manipulate your emotions there are lots of reliable information sources about pollution risks, like mmwr, the cochrane collaboration, msds, toxicology textbooks, wikipedia, epa assessments, and so on there is no need to make yourself dumber by making life decisions contingent on beliefs you acquired from movies

bricemo 4y ago
What in the movie was false?
- kragen 4y ago
  this is a ridiculous question i am not going to subject myself to hours of manipulative propaganda for which truth is not even a consideration in order to write a 'rebuttal' nobody wants to read, thus implicitly affirming all the errors that i missed or that didn't seem important enough to mention dramatizations are works of fiction literally everything in them is false with the occasional exception every word, every facial expression, every event, every chemical reaction, every purchase, every article of clothing, every motivation the exceptions where they say something objectively true are enumerable; the falsehoods are not don't base your beliefs or life decisions on fiction finding out what is true and making good choices are hard enough without deliberately sabotaging the process
  - tremon 4y ago
    this is a ridiculous question I think it's a perfectly reasonable response to your assertion that "movies lie to you on purpose to manipulate your emotions" in order to defend the GP comment. If that's a ridiculous question, it's only because your assertion was equally ridiculous given the context of the thread.