Vaccinations; recent developments

[sarkeizen]

What is written may be considered or rejected as each chooses.

In other words:  All you are doing is promoting a particular set of ideologies.  Right?  You also seem to do so without even the slightest amount of self-examination.  Right?

So given that all you do is push unexamined opinion.  How does this help move people toward the truth?

[sarkeizen]

Good advice.  Question everything that is propagated both from government sources via the mainstream media as well as alternative sources.  In this present age disinformation abounds.

In other words be the opposite of you.

Why must everything SM says be like listening to 4th grade debate club?  Seriously, has anyone ever thought about having a reasonably objective set of criteria to APPLY to ideas or having a useful well-defined and consistent process for evaluating ideas?  Or is there some attraction to poorly defined and logically inconsistent epistemology that I'm not seeing. For example is everyone incapable of dealing with a philosophy that can't be stated on a bumper sticker?

[sarkeizen]

I like the idea of personal responsibility.  I hope that others agree that personal responsibility includes making reasonable inquiries into ideas before accepting them as beliefs.

But not before advertising them?

[MarkE]

Advertising an unverified idea as something one would like others to accept as true is foolish or worse.  Advertising an unverified idea in a solicitation for help with diligence is fine to me.

[sarkeizen]

Advertising an unverified idea as something one would like others to accept as true is foolish or worse.

"Negligent" is the word I use.  It's pretty obvious that SM at least attempts to appear of the later category.