It Turns Out You Can Bullshit a Bullshitter After All

Re:It Turns Out You Can Bullshit a Bullshitter After All by eloisius on Sunday March 07, 2021 @09:19AM (#26376004)

When I said "every one of _them_" I was referring to every one of them that you have met. Not implying that you meant all of them in existence. I'm surprised by your experience, because growing up in an Evangelical community in the south anti-vaxxers were a dime a dozen, but I've never met anyone whose children were harmed by vaccines.

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Re:It Turns Out You Can Bullshit a Bullshitter After All by jacobr1 on Sunday March 07, 2021 @09:47AM (#26376209)

Possible a timing/age issue. When I first encountered the antivaxers, it was in the late 90s with parents of children on the autistic spectrum grasping at whatever cause they could. Now it is pretty much just the kind of people that are attracted to ideas like climate skepticism or crystal healing. And they all have a bogeyman like evil corporations or the government.

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Re:It Turns Out You Can Bullshit a Bullshitter After All by AzzieElbab on Sunday March 07, 2021 @10:08AM (#26376370)

That is exactly it.

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Re:It Turns Out You Can Bullshit a Bullshitter After All by AzzieElbab on Sunday March 07, 2021 @10:07AM (#26376359)

Oh interesting. I don’t know many religious people. I grew up in the USSR.

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Re:It Turns Out You Can Bullshit a Bullshitter After All by varjag on Sunday March 07, 2021 @02:21PM (#26378851)

Much of the former USSR is the domain of superstitious and religious. Antivaxx is also mainstream there.

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Re:It Turns Out You Can Bullshit a Bullshitter After All by AzzieElbab on Sunday March 07, 2021 @05:36PM (#26380467)

Maybe, but back then we never even thought about it. Some shots we have taken actually leave scars.

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