Life vs death 2
More from the Inquisition:

Ever wonder why flat earthers, birthers, climate change and Holocaust deniers stick to their beliefs in the face of overwhelming evidence to the contrary?

The article says that feedback and peer pressure are more important than evidence in sustaining beliefs. Unsurprising and unarguable.

And the lead sentence proves the point meta-ly. If you are among the media-driven fuckheads who place these four beliefs in the same category, your FALSE belief that these four things are the same is based solely on peer pressure and mutual reinforcement.

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Let's look at the truth status of the four things. Each is complicated, and each is different.

1. Flat earth. Very few people seriously believe in a flat earth. Many of the people who speak for it are obviously having fun, and some are obviously APs. Among literate people in advanced countries, the real believers are probably in the hundreds. Not a group worth worrying about.

2. Birthers. There was GENUINE doubt about Obama's birth certificate. His mother was a CIA-sponsored international secular missionary, fully capable of using an official cover story. His father was unquestionably foreign. Obama refused to produce the certificate when asked. Those three FACTS are pretty good reason for doubt. The "movement" was grabbed up by Republican oppo-research specialists who stirred it up and stretched it beyond the original doubt. The whole issue is inconsequential because there is NO LAW requiring the president to be natural-born. The phrase was in an obscure and unused 1787 document bearing the title of "constitution", but we've never even tried to enforce it. George Romney was perfectly unqualified. Born in Mexico, parents and grandparents had always lived in Mexico. Pure Mexican citizen. Nobody worried about him. Monster McCain was dubious in the same degree as Obama, but nobody worried about him.

3. "Climate change" is a DISPROVED THEORY. There is NO DOUBT about this. Yes, the weather changes. Yes, the current set of changes is fairly unusual compared to the last hundred years, but NOT unusual on a longer scale. The current situation looks similar to phases of the cycle that happened thousands or millions of years ago, and those previous similar phases were NOT caused by Trump. In each of those previous phases CO2 was a trailing variable, and so far it looks like a trailing variable in the current phase. Given the FACTS about where the heat is strongest, and the FACTS about current movements of the magma in the earth's crust, the latter is a much more plausible explanation than CO2.

4. Holocaust: There's NO DOUBT that Hitler killed millions of Jews, along with millions of Catholics and Slavs and miscellaneous Deplorables. The conventional story focuses too much on the Jews because the Jews are the current story-TELLERS, but that doesn't change the FACT that Hitler killed millions of Jews.

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So we have four different situations. 1 is a simple truth opposed by a handful of people who don't matter. 2 is an official assertion that remains dubious but doesn't matter. 3 is an official LIE that is opposed by MANY fact-loving people. 4 is a simple truth opposed by a fairly large and serious group of people.

The rapidly accelerating MOVEMENT to mix these disparate phenomena together as a justification for a NEW HOLOCAUST is the WORST LIE OF ALL. It is DEEPLY AND LETHALLY CONSEQUENTIAL.

Labels: #DeplorableLivesMatter, metametrology

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