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Zen and the Art of Talking to Conspiracy Theorists

35 点作者 markandrewj超过 3 年前

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throwaway22032超过 3 年前
Does anyone actually know a real &quot;5g causes corona&quot; person? I&#x27;ve seen them at marches, that&#x27;s about it.<p>They didn&#x27;t strike me as being normal people taken in by misinformation - instead I figured they had some sort of mental issue like schizophrenia or whatever.<p>I think that most people massively overstate the amount of genuine crackpottery that exists and instead just resort to calling people they disagree with or are uncomfortable with conspiracy theorists.<p>As an example, the article lumps in &quot;masks are a control mechanism&quot; with &quot;5g towers cause coronavirus&quot;.<p>The UK government explicitly states that their nudge unit believes in the use of masking as a way to remind people that coronavirus is about. It is being used as a control mechanism, that&#x27;s incontrovertible fact - it&#x27;s probably also useful for reducing the spread of coronavirus (but perhaps not for total happiness).<p>It&#x27;s not even a conspiracy because it&#x27;s out in the open.<p>By contrast the 5g stuff is obviously mental and makes no sense at all.
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daveevad超过 3 年前
The flat earth conspiracy theory really made me reevaluate how difficult it is to prove just about anything. As best as I can tell, the <i>easiest</i> way for one person to independently verify the earth is not flat is by watching the hull of a boat disappear before the mast. That&#x27;s not super conclusive in my opinion because it relies on looking at an object over a couple miles away. This realization evaded most of mankind 600 years ago, so I&#x27;d argue it&#x27;s not overwhelmingly obvious. Similarly, the curvature of the earth isn&#x27;t observable from a commercial airline flight&#x27;s standard altitude and window construction.<p>This is all to say that people refuse to believe things that they cannot personally verify. For the record, I believe the earth is an oblong spheroid.
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watersb超过 3 年前
Bumped into a chemtrails evangelist at the local office supply store.<p>Rural US, people believe <i>everything</i> out here. The more sparse the population, the stranger it gets. I don&#x27;t think this is a new phenomenon; cultists were quite the thing in the early 1990s, essentially before modern web browsers. Although dial-up BBS and Usenet had provided a forum for odd bits for a couple of decades, I&#x27;m not aware of a universal search engine that could easily lead people into the Revealed Truth.<p>The 1990s focused the crazy, as gonzo eschatology was not post-Y2K-compliant.<p>If you can tolerate evangelical tent meetings, that&#x27;s also a vast ecosystem for remarkable creeds.
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