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When Are We All Finally Going to Stop Living in Fear?
Back in the 1950s, this psychology professor at Swarthmore had an idea. He wondered just how powerful peer pressure was.
So he rounded up 123 students.
They were male.
He put them in groups of five or seven. He told one dude in every group he was conducting vision tests. He told the rest of the group he was really studying peer pressure. He told them all to give the right answer the first two times. After that, they were supposed to give the same wrong answer for almost every question. The wrong answer wasn't just a little wrong.
It was obviously wrong.
Epically wrong.
The professor expected the one dude to hold his ground most of the time, that he wouldn't conform. The professor was wrong. Only about 25 percent of his test subjects resisted the urge to conform. About a third of them conformed almost all of the time, and 5 percent conformed completely.
https://www.okdoomer.io/its-time-to-stop-living-in-fear
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Claims council cuts and LEZ ban deepen Glasgow rat crisis
SCOTLAND'S biggest council has been warned that cuts to the number of street cleaners and major problems with refuse vehicles failing to comply with the city's Low Emission Zone is deepening a problem with rat infestation.
Of the 1,615 vehicles owned by the council some 616 are non-compliant meaning they are no longer allowed inside the new #LEZ
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/23725268.claims-council-cuts-lez-ban-deepen-glasgow-rat-crisis/
#Scotland #Glasgow #ClimateEmergency #CriticalThinking #rats #vermin
If you can't question it, or take opposition to it, it's not science, it's dogma or propaganda.
If you can't inquire into the veracity of it, or deny it, it's not history, it's dogma or propaganda.
A proposition that's true will withstand critical scrutiny; a proposition that's false, but presented as true, requires protection.
Control of information is control of understanding is control of perceptions is control of choices is control of societies.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8O9GrjJlD8 refreshing hearing someone else [( #katiehalper and friend )] point out the falsity of the divide-and-conquer ploys conjuring their fake sides and fake fights.
and that the boy cries wolf...
#freespeechsaveslives #censorshipcostslives
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgth5ljlEhA
"it's hard to believe other people didn't see it."
"it's so blatantly out there."
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her words early in this, remind me of conversations i heard nurses having with each other, when i was in hospital in 2002, where they seemed quite astute to the mask issue, aware of studies, and their own experiences, and the logic, prominently revealing how masks not only dont work to prevent (or even reduce) the spread of disease, but worsen outcomes, and how they were up against it with stupid harmful orders coming from administration, contrary to evidence. this was a long time coming in the crooks' pipeline.
#WeCanStillMendThis
#challengingYourBelief
https://rumble.com/v278dta-challenging-your-belief.html
"the mark of an educated mind is to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it" #AlanJames 's phrasing of the #goodquote / #idea attributed to #Aristotle
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#covid #covid19 #coronavirus #vaccines #boosters #vaccination #covidvaccine #covidvaccines #mrna #covidboosters #covid19boosters #evidence #testimony #testimonial #research #criticalthinking
I haven't had a single Covid "vaccine" yet, have had Covid several times since the Alpha strain in the beginning of 2020, I'm not young, I'm not fit, I eat a poor diet, I don't exercise, I'm overweight, I haven't used a mask once and other than the Alpha strain (which took 10 days), I've got over every Covid infection in 3 days or less.
Yes, this is anecdotal, but then, if Covid was as deadly and dangerous as mass media, government and intergovernmental agencies would like us to believe, I would surely have perished long ago.
For two more anecdotes:
My parter is mostly as unhealthy as I am, except she does a bit more than zero exercise and she too hasn't had a single "vaccine", has had Covid multiple times and got over it each time quicker than I have.
My grandmother is 86, supposedly the most at-risk age-group, and she hasn't had a single Covid "vaccine" either, has had Covid multiple times and got over it quicker than I did. She lives a healthier life than I or my partner, but she's also supposedly at the highest risk, yet has been totally fine.
I strongly suggest you do as I did, and research mRNA coronavirus vaccines and coronaviruses for yourselves. After two years, those of us who didn't get the mRNA injections are still here.
If something is true, it will withstand critical scrutiny. If something is false, but presented as true, it requires protection.
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y'know #weinventedthelinesonthemap still. that hasn't changed.
check for, and challenge #dogma and #orthodoxy and #officialdoctrine
dont let them #terrorize you with #witchhunts and their pejoratively labelling you a #heretic
#thetruthwellout #seekthetruth #questionmore #dehypnotise #independentthought #criticalthinking
New study indicates conspiracy theory believers have less developed critical thinking abilities
New research published in Applied Cognitive Psychology provides evidence that critical thinking skills are negatively related to belief in conspiracy theories. In other words, the study suggests that people with greater critical thinking skills are less likely to believe that terrorist attacks are being covertly directed by a country’s own government or that mind-control technology is secretly being used to control the population.
"Two things can be learned from our two studies. First, the more people believe in conspiracy theories, the worse they perform on a critical thinking ability test."
“Second, if we look at the subjective feeling of being a critical thinker (rather than the critical thinking ability evaluated more objectively by the test mentioned earlier) we did not find any evidence for a higher (or lower) subjective critical thinking ability among those who subscribe more to conspiracy theories. This is not in line with the cliché of the conspiracy theorists who see themselves as critical thinkers.”
See New study indicates conspiracy theory believers have less developed critical thinking abilities
#criticalthinking #conspiracytheories #study #conspiracy
New research published in Applied Cognitive Psychology provides evidence that critical thinking skills are negatively related to belief in conspiracy ...
Interesting breakdown of rhetorical devices (before the hounds are released on me, I know that the periodic layout doesn't add anything to it, but I still found the information to be useful). Found on: www.visualcapitalist.com
COVID-19: Why US situation is far worse than Europe's, and why this may not be immediately evident
TL;DR: In assessing relative risk status, the future must be considered, not simply the present.
An HN thread[0] discusses whether the US or Europe are experiencing a worse Covid situation. The question contains nuances and pitfalls, though the general answer seems to be:
- The EU's situation is generally several weeks advanced relative to the US. As with the Jan--Mar 2020 interval, situations in different regions can be generally considered as time-shifts of one another rather than distinct dynamics.
- Instant measures of current case or death rates fail to account for built-in and likely future impacts and risks. Ignoring these is a category error, though a common one.
- The European daily trends are slowing or reversing. US trends are accelerating. The US future looks far bleaker than the European future. This contrasts with the blinding bias of considering only immediate present measures such as daily mortality.
Covid and population here come from Worldometers.
The thread begins with Aperocky's comment asserting, correctly, that "The worst hit place right now is the ~United States of America."
Responding, esja asserts "this is not true", though doesn't clarify their redefinition of "worst hit", for another two rounds of discussion, finally settling on "deaths today".
That basis is fatally (so to speak) flawed as it entirely dismisses the facts that:
Cases today translate directly to deaths in the 2--4 week future, at a best-case rate of 0.5% CFR and far more plausibly 1.5--3% CFR, based on present reported cases.[1]
US new cases per capita are at least on par if not worse than Europes's.
Europe's daily case rates are trending at worst flat, and are generally decreasing.
US case rates are rising, at an acellerating rate.
The US today reports 158,363 new cases (7-day average), and a 3% CFR. In ~2--3 weeks, likely daily deaths will be 2,375--4,750, or 7.5--15 per million.[2]
Germany, to use esja's favoured example, reports 18,363 new cases (7-day average), and a 2% CFR. In ~2--3 weeks, likely daily deaths will be 367--550, 4.4--6.6 per million.[3]
All Europe reports ~220,000 new daily cases (16 Nov 2020, not smoothed). in ~2--3 weeks, likely daily deaths will be 3,300--6,600, 4.4--8.8 per million.[4]
In all cases, baked-in future daily US mortality rates will be roughly twice those of Europe, adjusted for population and are trending still further worse. The US 'benefits' only by having begun its annual seasonal coronavirus peak some 4--8 weeks later than Europe, with an European inflection beginning in September--October and a US inflection beginning October--November.
To provide an analogy, esja is laughing at Europe being in a ditch whilst the US is racing toward a cliff's edge. Assessments of present health or wealth must include obvious future consequences or risks. Critics of EU response entirely ignore these, and reframe the initial criterion to do so.
Such analysis suffers from presentism and risk blindness and is utterly flawed.
Adapted from HN comments to the thread linked above.
Notes:
Beginning here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25113115
I'm ignoring the fact that reported fatalities undercount true COVID-19 fatalities as demonstrated by overall excess deaths by about 30% per an August 2020 New York Times report and other independent studies and data. This is a largely global bias, doesn't affect inter-regional comparisons, simplifies analysis, and strengthens my argument as the case I present, bleak as it is, is less severe than the actual reality
Using 1.5--3% CFR.
Also using 1.5%--35 CFR, despite Germany's lower experienced CFR.
Worldometers does not provide continental/regional plots or smoothed trends, though law-of-large-numbers helps somewhat. Again at 1.5--3% CFR, based on reported values, whic undercounts recoveries, experienced CFR is ~4%. Using a non-smoothed current high-point number further overstates total European future mortality relative to the US.
#covid19 #UnitedStates #europe #CriticalThinking #FlawedArguments #HackerNews #risk #worldometers
