So, my an online american friend said"My mom didn’t want to vaccine vax cuzs autism". Is he joking? I know many people say thing like that but i thought they all were joking?

In my country which is a third world country no one believe shit like that even my Grand mother who is illiterate and religious don’t believe thing like that and knows the benefit of vaccine.

  • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
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    3 days ago

    Sagan wrote a lot of stuff that was right on and makes me sad, too.

    I have a foreboding of an America in my children’s or grandchildren’s time – when the United States is a service and information economy; when nearly all the manufacturing industries have slipped away to other countries; when awesome technological powers are in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowledgeably question those in authority; when, clutching our crystals and nervously consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what’s true, we slide, almost without noticing, back into superstition and darkness…

    The dumbing down of American is most evident in the slow decay of substantive content in the enormously influential media, the 30 second sound bites (now down to 10 seconds or less), lowest common denominator programming, credulous presentations on pseudoscience and superstition, but especially a kind of celebration of ignorance.

    One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
      5·
      2 days ago

      One of the saddest lessons of history is this: If we’ve been bamboozled long enough, we tend to reject any evidence of the bamboozle. We’re no longer interested in finding out the truth. The bamboozle has captured us. It’s simply too painful to acknowledge, even to ourselves, that we’ve been taken. Once you give a charlatan power over you, you almost never get it back.

      *cries in vegan*

      • Snot Flickerman@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
        2·
        2 days ago

        I can’t decide if this comment is a vegan crying about being bamboozled into veganism or a vegan crying about others being bamboozled into hating veganism. Hoping it’s the latter.

        • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.caEnglish
          4·
          2 days ago

          Every time industrialists come up with a new way to help people lie to themselves about the moral, medical, and environmental consequences of animal consumption, no matter how gossamer the cover, people eat it up. But when the scientific community provides evidence that people can completely avoid T2 diabetes, heart disease, many major forms of cancer, and apparently even Alzheimer’s, it doesn’t move the needle one pip. People would rather lie to themselves and will selectively choose what facts to emotionally and intellectually process and which to pretend they never even heard.