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Re:Years of fighting every wildfire helped fuel the Western ... by telchar on Thursday August 05, 2021 @04:07PM (#28078963)
Credibility matters. Denying the big problem exists in spite of an overwhelming consensus results in being distrusted and ridiculed when (perhaps rightly) playing up a small problem over the big problem in a particular space.

Likewise no one cares to listen to people who refuse to get vaccinated or do anything at all to reduce spread of a disease when those same people want to talk about whether the disease made a trip through a lab on it's way to the general population.

Re:Years of fighting every wildfire helped fuel the Western ... by 908B64B197 on Thursday August 05, 2021 @07:53PM (#28081572)
> Credibility matters

People attack credibility when they can't refute the facts!

> Likewise no one cares to listen to people who refuse to get vaccinated or do anything at all to reduce spread of a disease when those same people want to talk about whether the disease made a trip through a lab on it's way to the general population.

Of course, remember it was forbidden to mention the lab leak hypothesis on mainstream social media. They banned people for that.