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Re:Amazon refuses to sell book on Covid-19 and lockdowns by reaperducer on Friday June 05, 2020 @01:35PM (#23431304)
I don't buy the argument that bullshit exists on a perpetually grey gradient. There are things that are clearly bullshit.
Re:Amazon refuses to sell book on Covid-19 and lockdowns by Reedx on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:11PM (#23431802)
I think flat earth falls into that category. However... the problem is there are also things that seem clearly like bullshit that we later find out not to be.

Have you ever been completely convinced about something that turned out to be entirely wrong? Almost certainly, probably more than a few times. It happens to all of us. And sometimes this happens on a societal scale with things like science and civil rights. Ideas not accepted at the time, attempted silence, but fortunately resisted censorship until history was able to bore them out.

Re:Amazon refuses to sell book on Covid-19 and lockdowns by zepto on Friday June 05, 2020 @02:46PM (#23432249)
Nobody is making that argument.

The problem is that there are fewer clearly bullshit things than people think.

Re:Amazon refuses to sell book on Covid-19 and lockdowns by zarkov99 on Friday June 05, 2020 @05:51PM (#23434445)
Yes, that is what they told Galileo. They were wrong of course, but we are so much wiser now, we could not possibly make the same mistakes.