What's the current state of SaidIt?

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Who else are you going to trust?

Isn't that the trillion dollar question.

1000s of researchers who are working with facts and the scientific method,

Antidepressants and cox-2 inhibitors are two fantastic examples of why you can't blindly trust scientists. The science said they were useful. The first one, although we know it barely works and has serious side effects, still is actively being prescribed. People use scientists, they're puppets. And your side believes them selectively. If Dr. Joe Smith from Idaho says the covid vaccine makes your dick fall off, then you ignore him.

Joe Rogan

I can't really speak much to this guy cause I loved him as Joe on News Radio but I'm not into MMA or podcasts. The bit of the interview I saw with Sanjay Gupta, Rogan made good points. He strikes me as an intelligent guy who speaks what he believes to the best of his understanding.

Guess who is funding the anti-science propaganda, and why they do this.

Who, where is the money behind anti-science?

Consider that so many of the posts on Saidit aren't factual

I think the issue is more often that you're ideologically opposed to the posts than their factuality. Not that everything you read on the internet is ever true, but as a long time reddit user I don't know how you would have two barns, one big one piled high with shit and a smaller one with just a little poop, and point to the little barn and say "what a dump" like Liz Taylor in Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.

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Thank you. I should respond properly, but I have to log off for now. Essentially: I agree it's good to be skeptical. Indeed, the reason I am here is to read posts I normally don't agree with. But I do differentiate between opinions and facts, with particular interest in the facts (which I think aren't ideological). And regarding piles of shit - for what it's worth - I remember my mother telling me (very long ago): if I were told to go to a barn and see what's in there, I'd open the doors, see a tall pile of shit, and would search nonetheless under that shit for the pony underneath. Not flattering, but there it is. I have difficulty motivating myself to hate people (normally).