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Re:Finland joins Sweden and Denmark in limiting Moderna Covi... by freyir on Thursday October 07, 2021 @04:40PM (#28791757)
It falls to the bottom because it lies about the facts (vaccines were never declared 100% safe and effective) and reaches an incorrect conclusion (if one vaccine is determined to be safer than another, it doesn’t follow that vaccines are objectively unsafe, or that being unvaccinated is safer than being vaccinated).

It’s a silly comment to make, and potentially harmful. The majority of people in this case don’t, on average, “follow what they’re told.” They’re very capable of evaluating facts and data and responding accordingly. That’s what’s happening here.

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Re:Finland joins Sweden and Denmark in limiting Moderna Covi... by iammisc on Thursday October 07, 2021 @05:09PM (#28792131)
> he majority of people in this case don’t, on average, “follow what they’re told.” They’re very capable of evaluating facts and data and responding accordingly. That’s what’s happening here.

Given articles like this, it seems unclear that this is true.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/18/briefing/atlanta-shooting...

It seems obvious that large portions of the two major parties, as well as independents are completely factually wrong on salient aspects of COVID.

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Re:Finland joins Sweden and Denmark in limiting Moderna Covi... by 8note on Thursday October 07, 2021 @09:05PM (#28794412)
"very capable of evaluating facts and data and responding to data"

Sounds very incorrect. I'm at least very easily mislead, eg. Fusion advocates talking about the energy they put into plasma vs get out of plasma, rather than the energy they put into the system vs take out of the system. I don't know enough to know that they're lying to me about the prospects of ITER producing as much energy as it uses.

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