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Re:38% of US adults believe government is faking Covid-19 de... by native_samples on Thursday November 11, 2021 @04:00AM (#29185949)
High school biology covers that and many other relevant things? Maybe not where you grew up but it did for me. Basic immunology was covered too - what are anti-bodies, T cells, B cells. This was 20 years ago.

Indeed education is not going to help you. One of the big problems with the credibility of COVID experts is the frequency with which they contradict high school level biology without explanation. The claims that natural immunity is worse than vaccination are quite obviously in conflict with high school level biology, for example. The claim that massive scale testing programmes have ~no false positives is likewise going to be hard to accept for anyone who struggled to make basic experiments work in high school labs.

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Re:38% of US adults believe government is faking Covid-19 de... by catlikesshrimp on Thursday November 11, 2021 @09:56PM (#29195872)
I hear you with the no false positives statement, which I haven't personally encountered, but still

However, if misinformation is convincing people who are supposed to be educated, they weren't properly educated to start. In short: It is not enough.

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