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Re:Underestimating the mind-warping potential of fake video by jdietrich on Monday April 23, 2018 @12:51PM (#16905143)
>But in the case of climate change anyone over thirty-five or so knows damn well the weather has gone funny.

A very similar logic leads people to conclude "it was cold last week, so global warming is nonsense". Being able to understand the scientific case for climate change requires a level of scientific literacy and critical thinking that most people could readily develop, but isn't taught in schools.

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Re:Underestimating the mind-warping potential of fake video by carapace on Monday April 23, 2018 @01:29PM (#16905527)
It's not logic even slightly.

Multicellular organisms have internal mechanisms to track environmental changes and forecast things like how many offspring to have.

This sort of "thinking" isn't neurological, it takes place in epigenetic systems that can span generations, especially in mammals due to gestation.

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