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Re:You cannot police misinformation in a fair, reproducible,... by mrtesthah on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @03:30PM (#30264193)
>People just don't trust authorities anymore, because authorities time and time again have misled them.

It certainly has to do with trust in authorities, but for many that loss of trust happened in childhood and left them with a paranoid mindset and diminished capacity for logical reasoning.

See:

“Associations between adverse childhood experiences, attitudes towards COVID-19 restrictions and vaccine hesitancy: a cross-sectional study”

https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/12/2/e053915

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Re:You cannot police misinformation in a fair, reproducible,... by avgcorrection on Tuesday February 08, 2022 @03:56PM (#30264574)
Should have fallen in line like all the intelligent kids.
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Re:You cannot police misinformation in a fair, reproducible,... by croon on Wednesday February 09, 2022 @09:16AM (#30272840)
Facetious: I'm not gonna curve with the road like all these lemmings, I'm gonna go straight off the cliff!

The majority isn't always right, but instinctively going the other way isn't better.

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