mRNA vaccines are safe, have been in development for decades, & have far broader applications than older vaccine technologies. New vaccine technologies evolve when scientists have tools & knowledge to make something more elegant or complex that wasn’t possible before. 5/
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I guess I might as well try voo doo… it couldn’t be any worse than following medical protocols from a juicer and former heroin addict.
Futurama has already been there: S11E7, Rage Against the Vaccine www.imdb.com/title/tt2181...
Thank you for your explanation. Unfortunately, on this platform, you are preaching to the choir.
Exactly, but how do we get this information out to the Neanderthal DNA carrying half of the country? How do we educate the ignorant? They rejected knowledge before in history and set mankind back a few centuries, and now they’re going to do it again.
70% of Americans believe in angels. 🙄 apnorc.org/projects/bel...
Not sure it's fair to blame neanderthals.
On a side note I just discovered some Neanderthals had Down’s Syndrome just like human populations. I tried but failed to imagine what a Neanderthal w/ Down’s would look like. Holy fuck
I know I’m grasping. The myth that Neanderthals were slower than homosapiens has been debunked. But I just can’t figure out why people revert to superstition and anti science, trying not to learn from history etc. I guess I was just hoping it was genetic and not learned behavior. What could it be?
Humans. Experts on conspiracy theories (broadly defined) disagree on the exact percentage, but they’re in agreement that an overwhelming majority of Americans, 2/3, 3/4, or more, believe in at least one common, well-debunked theory. And why shouldn’t they, most of the time? 1/
Most are mostly harmless, taken in moderation. While believing six impossible things before breakfast takes talent and practice, holding mutually contradictory beliefs is really common. It takes a lot of mental and emotional energy to chase down the paradoxes and resolve them. 2/
Usually the effort is better spent washing dishes or at a day job, keeping the world going ‘round. The problem today is that we have most of the country looking for excuses not to work on the hard things, namely building unions and taxing billionaires. Advocating them gets you fired. 3/
So they look for someone or something else to blame: Republicans, Democrats, the patriarchy, feminists, you know the mantras. Some of these are real problems (patriarchy, Republicans), some are deep (patriarchy), some are derp (the vast majority of Republicans according to my hypothesis here). 4/
Redistributing power and wealth (eg unions and billionaire taxes, respectively) are possible—we already do them at scale. But we the people have to do the work ourselves in our free time, while the billionaires hire lobbyists. It’s hard and slow and gratification is delayed. And so it goes. 5/5
P.S. The other thing we need is broad recognition that joint-stock corporations are extremely effective combinations of dollars in restraint of trade. Unions are much less effective. That’s why capital hires labor, not vice-versa. We need more unions! Not to mention better (not “more”) regulation.🫡
Realoty doesn’t make them feel special.
Mainly? They’re fucking idiots.
Why bashing Neanderthals? There is no justification for it. The thought that we were heinous, dense or primitive was based upon a Victorian sense of superiority rather than on any scientific proof.
Informing is not preaching. There are plenty here who need information to help with the talks they have with their friends.