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Re:Deadly infection linked to contaminated room spray sold a... by userbinator on Sunday October 24, 2021 @11:45PM (#28984315)
despite having vastly greater literacy rates and access to information

The information available now is also vastly more watered-down, subjected to marketing-infused misinformation, and almost designed to keep people from gaining more information.

From that perspective, literacy is really just making it easier to convince people of lies.

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Re:Deadly infection linked to contaminated room spray sold a... by noduerme on Monday October 25, 2021 @06:19AM (#28986178)
Dark. I don't know. I find it hard to believe that literacy doesn't engender at least a little bit more skepticism / rationality than illiteracy.
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