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Re:Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertilit... by zamfi on Wednesday August 24, 2022 @10:12PM (#32588588)
This kind of dangerous logic is how you end up with anti-vax conspiracy theories about Bill Gates and mind control, about how one could trust Pfizer’s Phase 3 vaccine trial data they submitted for approval, etc.

On the one hand, yes of course: sources matter and you need to consider whether anyone has a motive to mislead, or even merely a motive to not dig too deeply into a claim they might wish to believe.

But on the other hand, a company merely merely being founded decades ago by a someone of a particular nationality does not on its own constitute strong evidence that any claims about that country are tainted or self-motivated. That connection is just too weak — you need to bring other evidence!

Re:Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertilit... by ratsmack on Thursday August 25, 2022 @01:15AM (#32589789)
>This kind of dangerous logic...

Different or opposing opinions are neither dangerous or violent.

Re:Korea shatters its own record for world’s lowest fertilit... by zamfi on Thursday August 25, 2022 @09:13AM (#32593266)
To be clear, the danger is not in differing opinions, it's in overindexing on imagined motives and using those to dismiss a claim.

Unpopular opinion, I guess.