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by mannanj 5y ago
Its more of the same tactic in politics as used by chief nazi propagandists: "Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred." It still surprises me how efficiently all our worlds le
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by mannanj 5y ago
Its more of the same tactic in politics as used by chief nazi propagandists: "Propaganda must facilitate the displacement of aggression by specifying the targets for hatred." It still surprises me how efficiently all our worlds le
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by mannanj 5y ago
Love this post below that I'll shamelessly copy: > ... at the moment Twitter is a Trojan Horse pretending to be an impartial public exchange but in reality it is being controlled by political and business interest groups. We are see
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by mannanj 5y ago
I love when someone uses the label "This is misinformation" but then also has to rely on that they're judgement that it is misinformation is more accurate than yours. Well what makes that true? Suddenly you are qualified to j
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by mannanj 5y ago
I think we know where this is going. It takes until an unsilent majority gets affected. Right now, they think they will be unaffected for longer than the minority are. They are in for a huge surprise.
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by mannanj 5y ago
If we don't have Twitter for a place to have important discussions, what do we have?
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by mannanj 5y ago
And how do I send money to pay a bill with pre-existing systems? Pay a third party like Venmo, Square, etc a fee, or use my banks (also horribly designed and bad UX system) to send the money slower than watching paint dry. I'd rather p
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by mannanj 5y ago
>Nobody has a need for it which can’t be satisfied at least as well by alternatives Have you ever tried to send more than $5k, $10k or $20k before? You basically can't with your bank without having to go through a bunch of hurdles o
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by mannanj 5y ago
> what happens when you think of everyone as a pigeonholed category. Intuitively it seems it should be mostly negative especially if the categories don’t even offer any behavioral insight. Attach the label "antivax" or "co
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by mannanj 5y ago
I tried this for a short time. Hard to recall the affect on me, I don't feel depressed any longer so safe to say it probably worked. I'd say the bigger impact on me was def. psychedelics though.
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by mannanj 5y ago
Same. No one talks about this, especially not our "official organizations" who clearly have no agenda to fear monger or increase expansion of control and power through fear, and then people wonder why trust levels are so low. It t
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by mannanj 5y ago
Not the OP, but my reasoning for all your points. 1- All posts are competing for attention. You live in a society where if you don't get someones attention right away, you're speaking to a wall. 2- The CDC is overworked, behind on
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by mannanj 5y ago
Your post is an Ad hominem style based of reasoning to shut down discussing any of the actual uncomfortable truths behind the post. You used antivaxxer as an ugly label to ignore discussing any of the points.
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Are you Straw Manning and Ad Hominem attacking the author in the same post? Where did he say that these people don't believe in medicine? In fact, being a Doctor or Nurse by definition means believing in medicine and protecting the pat
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If you ask a fact checker that, no. Years later when they change their tune, then yes. So the answer is no: because we live in a fact checker society now.
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The problem is fact checks would do the damage on a post like yours above, and by the time they're proven "wrong" have done the damage and moved on. it really is just information parroting/parading, and anyone defending
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by mannanj 5y ago
Your local hospitals in Minnesota are not hospitals nationwide. I have many hospitals in Northern Virginia, DC, and even LA that have been nothing close to "full" for many months of the last year, the media portrayed them as full.
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by mannanj 5y ago
There are always casualties to policies of "fact checking". You have witnessed yourself being one. I think it would have been nice to have some better policy or conversation in place for what happens when you become the one errone
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by mannanj 5y ago
> What could such a thing be? I think we need a fact checker for the fact checkers. I propose we let the fact checkers fact check themselves.
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My problem with these fact checkers is it feels too much like the ruling class/big corporations/government/big media becoming the sole arbiters of information truth again- and we know that doesn't end well.
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It couldn't have been figured out, because we kept the 1st Amendment for a reason. We figured not having the ruling class/big corporations/government/big media be the sole arbiters of information truth doesn't end w
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by mannanj 5y ago
In science you constantly have MD disagrees. How do you propose to reconcile this? Someone very qualified will inherently be "fact checked" because the information the fact checker acted on was old and outdated. Anyways this is se
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by mannanj 5y ago
They don't even own up to it after the fact. Fixes are implemented in the "shadows". These things reek and smell like politics. I wish I had an alternative to social media.
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What's important is fact checkers will never be right all the time, and we should have an inherent UI design to account for that and/or convey it to the user rather than the current "witch hunt style" where anyone who po
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by mannanj 5y ago
Who fact checks the fact checkers? Why we fact checked ourselves and found nothing wrong. Let's not forget the fact that those teams are also severely understaffed.
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How would this be any different from a thief breaking in anyways and taking your valuables at gunpoint?
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I am not deliberately ignoring those. They just aren't as relevant to the topic of vaccines. Vaccines are being marketed as the only reliable ingest-able product, that works against COVID. And all of those things you mentioned: social
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by mannanj 5y ago
Good point. That makes it a more marketable product then over vaccines or generic drugs.
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by mannanj 5y ago
Yeah. That sounds like a true story. Back on topic: is there a tool or product that can help figure out the funding sources of papers by a given topic over a timeframe? I.e. the ivermectin or hydroxyq papers published over last year-2?
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by mannanj 5y ago
Also your question is phrased in such a way that it implies the only answer to a disease is vaccination. There is a huge body of evidence on viruses that methods besides vaccines also work. Vaccines aren't the only answer. In fact, thi

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