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when people say "do your own research" they generally mean "do not trust anyone with any relevant training or experience"

Dastardly Elites Are Lying to You and Trying to Suppress My Truth is alas an incredibly effective propaganda angle

exactly. every woo woo crank is selling some miracle cure snake oil, and it can't work by definition because if it did, then pharma companies, hospitals etc would be selling it instead bsky.app/profile/lego...

all the worst incentives of Big Pharma without any of the scientific peer review apparatus to constrain them. that's how people end up gobbling horse paste, fish tank cleaner, colloidal silver etc

yeah. Fauci fucks up with masks (admittedly a bad fuck up) and somehow that discredits all science, but the cranks pay no penalty for being provably 180 degrees wrong about hydroxychlorquine, ivermectin, every vaccine, etc etc bsky.app/profile/idon...

credit to this lady for constructing the perfect Do Your Own Research sentence heated.world/p/the-influe...

If only there was a method

"there’s actually no way of knowing if yours is the right science," that one is going to be ping ponging around the ole brain cave for a long time

In her defence, Neitzsche did argue that the fundamental problem of philosophy was 'the evaluation of values.' From what perspective do you do that? It drove him so crazy he decided to become an uber-mensch.

THAT’S WHAT THE SCIENCE IS FOR

Fauci anticipated our human tendency to be extremely selfish. I remember very vividly how quickly the good ones sold out. Health care workers needed the protective gear most of all and it was immediately in short supply.