@rudyschwartz@dobbs.town
maybe hand-picking scientific results, presenting them as "the final truth" to excuse ruining livelihoods with executive emergency rulings?
@freemo
Which liberal practitioner of scientism are you quoting, who said something was "the final truth"?
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@ceoln
that quote was more quoting a line of thought.
forcing vaccines on people using being shoddy trials by the manufacturers as reason. ignoring all papers with findings contrary to that as irrelevant - like mrna being transcribed into dna. too many absolute statements when what has been said should've been "we don't know for sure".
@rudyschwartz@dobbs.town @freemo
You can't really quote "a line of thought".
I don't think that it's been a significant trend on the left, or in medical science, to for instance ignore certain papers as irrelevant; it's more that, as science always does, there was a rough consensus on how to interpret a set of results that were not entirely consistent, and then there was a (very messy, again as always) attempt to make public health policy informed by the science.
Certainly there are people at all points in the political space who do not understand, or who ignore, the nuances of important science. But I don't see any evidence that it's a specifically "left" thing.
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@bonifartius @rudyschwartz@dobbs.town @freemo
Yeah, I was a libertarian once. :) But it turns out that if you get rid of government power, you end up with corporate power instead, and that's worse. Governments can, at least sometimes, be kept benign through constant vigilance and action.
@ceoln
this is a page collecting the things which were said, it's in german though, and not very usable unfortunately: https://ich-habe-mitgemacht.de/
few show their evil until handed power. so the only way is to remove governmental power, which i never have heard anyone on the left really arguing for. even the anarcho-communist people want to round up others, at least from what i've seen.
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