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Re:Linus Torvalds: Get vaccinated. Stop believing the anti-v... by cromwellian on Thursday June 10, 2021 @06:19PM (#27466555)
You've got doctors, presumably educated people who actually learned how DNA, RNA, works, telling lawmakers that vaccines cause people to be interfaced with 5G towers, like what, an X-Men techno-virus? I mean WTF, how can professionals be so INSANE? And it's not just this person, there are lots of QAnon idiots spreading this mindvirus all over the net.

https://fox8.com/news/coronavirus/cleveland-doctor-tells-ohi...

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Re:Linus Torvalds: Get vaccinated. Stop believing the anti-v... by jiggawatts on Thursday June 10, 2021 @08:24PM (#27467812)
You know how when you watch the news and they talk about something that you have first-hand experience of? You instantly realise that they have no clue what they're talking about! Half the article is gibberish, the other is a willful misunderstanding.

Then the next article goes on about some topic you don't know, and suddenly you have this nagging suspicion that... hey... maybe they're bullshitting about this too!

That observation doesn't just apply to news media.

In my own industry, I'm constantly up against peers and colleagues who are highly paid, highly educated consultants. Customers turn to these people for "expert" advice. Most of it is something they picked up in the 1990s that is now thoroughly outdated. The other half is them jumping on board with the latest fad, typically badly.

But I have this perspective because I can recognise the bullshit and errors in my own industry.

Just like the way I now watch the news much more critically, I am now similarly critical of other professionals such as doctors or lawyers.

That said: Go get vaccinated! I'm getting my shot next week, which is the earliest I could possibly get it.

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Re:Linus Torvalds: Get vaccinated. Stop believing the anti-v... by SV_BubbleTime on Thursday June 10, 2021 @08:37PM (#27467907)
Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect if you want the actual term for it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murray_Gell-Mann

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Re:Linus Torvalds: Get vaccinated. Stop believing the anti-v... by landemva on Thursday June 10, 2021 @09:02PM (#27468089)
Certainly your choice to take something with just an emergency use approval. If you are in USA, consider reading about what docs are useful to have, in case you would need compensation from the vaccine injury fund.
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Re:Linus Torvalds: Get vaccinated. Stop believing the anti-v... by jiggawatts on Thursday June 10, 2021 @09:32PM (#27468337)
In my country the vaccine had full, normal approval, not emergency approval.

Don't make assumptions.

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Re:Linus Torvalds: Get vaccinated. Stop believing the anti-v... by the8472 on Thursday June 10, 2021 @06:33PM (#27466728)
People notice that government officials and the media can be intentionally misleading even when that's well-intended and may later pull a "we have always been at war with oceania". Once that lesson is learned "alternative sources" are a lot easier to believe.

https://thehill.com/changing-america/well-being/prevention-c... https://lessonsfromthecrisis.substack.com/p/the-experts-can-...

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Re:Linus Torvalds: Get vaccinated. Stop believing the anti-v... by COGlory on Thursday June 10, 2021 @08:49PM (#27468004)
Doctors are just as capable of being idiots as anyone else.
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