(11-24-2021 12:08 PM)mthomas Wrote: [ -> ][quote='Vivekananda' pid='3362545' dateline='1637705560']
mthomas, [/color]
"not to mention about the masks (remember that BS?...OUTRIGHT LIE!)"
The BSs I read about the masks were in the form of rumors about the supposed (and ridiculous) side effects we would suffer from their use.
No, he LIED that they didn't work in order to supposedly give them to healthcare workers and said it was the right thing to do....BS! Once a liar always a liar and what else is he lying about in the name of doing the right thing?
Oh, now I understand. I supposed he was talking something about problems with wearing masks.
But afaik, he changed what he was talking "as more information about COVID-19 became available during the pandemic".
It happened something like this here, too. A brazilian doctor said something like "don't worry, when covid arrives here it will be like a small flu".
But when we were confronted with reality, he said that there was a lot to worry about, and changed his talking.
And - again - what Fauci said is not a proof that vaccines have problems.
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I think that not having internet some time ago was really an advantage - even though, when I was a boy, there was a rumor about the supposed miraculous powers of purple ipe tree tea - it supposedly cured almost everything from headaches to cancer to ingrown toenails. Poor ipe tree! It almost went extinct! It was surprising to see so many people believing a rumor without any scientific basis - in my current view of these days, of course. At that time a lot of good people believed, until the subject slowly died away. Looking at it from today's perspective, it was even more surprising to see how this happened when the internet did not exist.
Recently, someone started a rumor about a medicine created here (fosfoetanolamina). They said it cured many types of cancer. The government was so pressured by public opinion that it ended up allowing its use before complete studies were carried out. Fortunately, the medicine proved to be harmless (and useless). Today it is still sold as a food supplement.
Think of a "small pharma" still profiting from desperate people looking for a miracle at any cost, who still believe in an old rumor...
Afaik, this whole antivax story started with a very unscientific rumor about vaccines causing autism.
For some people, hoaxes are real - even if they aren't. This people support antivaxes.
Some of them will embrace the cause of "we have the truth they haven't told and the big pharma is hiding from the public." Antivaxes will do anything to proof that they are right. They talk about "big pharma", but stay quiet about "big hoaxers".
They are using internet to mine information to reinforce their points of view.
I just imagine how many people is able to have profits with polemic videos and false articles - from antivaxes to flat earthers, to USA frauds in elections, to NASA lying about man in the moon, etc.
And this is a big "etc". Here we have a president that said that he has "proofs" that the election was fraudulent. Yes, the election he won. The proofs? Nobody knows where the imaginary proofs are. And when Trump lost, he said that USA elections were fraudulent...
This guy is so bad as a politician that sometimes we think he's still president just because he feeds his supporters with the polemics he writes nearly every day about fantastic conspiracy theories against him.
So we have to live with the internet, for better or for worse.
Maybe some anti-NASA conspirators / flat earthers / antivaxxers are here in BBHF learning about influence tactics, copyright, and anything they can use to forge an argument.
I think the truth humbly steps away from the discussion, saying, "Useless conversations! Only time will reveal where I'm hidden!"