On the festival the past weekend we had a few people in our group who asked things like: "do you BELIEVE in global warming?" "why would you ever trust the COVID vaccine?" and much more of these kind of questionable questions
I did not expect it from those certain people so that was a major bummer. One of them even works on a school so not a great example to have walking around
So I was battling with wannabe fascist the whole weekend, kinda super tiring
Wow I am surprised to hear this. . . I thought such willful stupidity was pretty much confined to my USA!
@stux those are valid questions, and notice, I think you noticed because the CAPS, they aren't asking about either climate or vaccines, they are asking about FEELINGS. "Believe" or "trust" are not value judgements!
It's fair to ask, "Why do you trust Newton?" esp when they know you didn't do the math, and the difference, ie their tenacity to "stick to belief", means they aren't interested in falsification, like Einstein and God's dice π
I wonder if they believe in and trust 'Jesus'? π
@stux and here's the real kicker for them, the whole reason why we now have two accurate but different values for the Hubble Constant is directly because a REAL scientist does NOT trust Newton or Einstein and seeks to refine the data, often exploding a prior theory!
Aerospace Engineers, on the other hand, just blindly trust both π
@stux Global warming isn't something one *believes* in. There's a huge body of data collected since the 1970's, and any honest analysis of that data points to the conclusion that global average temperatures are rising.
And I would trust the covid vaccine for the same reason I trusted all the other vaccines I've had since childhood: I'm still here, some six decades on, happily free from smallpox, polio, measles, seasonal flu -- oh, and covid.
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