"Trust the Science"

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[–]Kyto113 7 insightful - 2 fun7 insightful - 1 fun8 insightful - 2 fun -  (3 children)

How many of y'all have actually read the scientific publications?

Trusting random memes on saidit seems a step lower than trusting news sources lol.

[–]Velocity 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

How many of y'all have actually read the scientific publications?

I do. I research the pros and cons, then come to a "more" truthful conclusion. The one thing I learned is that Snopes and other "fact checkers" are absolute garbage.

[–]Kyto113 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Garbage because you disagree with them? They're not perfect, but they tend to do a pretty darn good job of utilizing facts. If your reason for disagreeing with the fact checkers is the kind of sources that are posted on this site, you're not executing critical thinking properly.

"Critical thinking" according to this site:

Fact checkers utilizing evidence to back up positions

"Mainstream media bias, liberal agenda"

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"This proves my point entirely!"

[–]Velocity 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

For mundane facts they're okay. For anything controversial they clearly misinterpret data points, and spin it to fit an establishment narrative.

they tend to do a pretty darn good job of utilizing facts

With your feeble verbose wall of text apology on their behalf. It's clear you do not do any serious amount of research on your own. Nor, have you mastered critical thinking.

While you're playing video games, or otherwise jacking around wasting your precious time. You would find me reading science and medical research, abstracts, and verifying subject credibility...and everyone involved.

Snope's bias is obvious to any one who has dedicated time to researching a topic. Common informational malfeasance on their part includes but is not limited to moving "field goals", ignoring dissenting evidence, shameless appeals to authority, disregarding "inconvenient" sources etc..

I shouldn't have to tell you this! If you were a researcher, you would already know what I'm talking about.

Not to mention Snope's shady history, and lack of transparency as to who is paying them to spread disinformation.

Sorry kid, you have to actually do the hard work of proving a topic. Instead of lazily being dependent on being fed erroneous information from a sleazy, incompetent site that you like to treat as an "I win" button because Snopes said so. At this point you look like a fool doing that.