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Midge's avatar

You perhaps should think about a third category: where even the better evidenced view is still too poorly evidenced to justify taking a position other than uncertainty/skepticism.

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Riff McClavin's avatar

What I have trouble getting is how could anyone sit through the slick cavalcade of corporate news or the chirpy nausea of the Today Show and come away not only feeling informed, but also entitled to a full-on lecture mode? What swamp demon, low-hanging fruit mentality does that entail?

My adult son recently got uninvited to a family Christmas dinner because he's unvaccinated, so if I seem a bit pissed off at our current brand of self-inflicted stupidity, it's because I am.

As your article implies, not only are people blinkered, but they wear their ignorance like it's some sort of a great personal accomplishment. Woe be to us.

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