On her final day as national intelligence director last week, Tulsi Gabbard released internal documents she claimed prove a series of damning facts about Dr. Anthony Fauci and the Covid-19 pandemic. But they don’t.
Sigh. Why does everything have to have some Big Dark Conspiracy behind it?
Nearly everyone that barely graduated high school or just outright dropped out, seems to think that they have the “real story” behind something like Covid. Because they “did their own research”.
These people usually don’t even realize (Dunning-Kruger) that they simply don’t have the skills to do that. That’s why they did so poorly at school and why they didn’t go on to - or finish - a higher degree, at least not in something more difficult to attain. They may not even have basic reading comprehension, probably have poor numeracy skills, and are not even aware of logical fallacies. The likelihood of them being auto-didactic is not very high.
It’s exhausting.
And morons and bad faith actors like Gabbard feed into it, FFS.
At the same time there’s a whole bunch of idiots running around thinking they know everything just because they paid the university tax and got a piece of paper
Imagine someone of average intelligence, then 50% of people are dumber than that and maybe 10% are functionally equivalently intelligent. Maybe 40% of the population are switched on, now throw in some politics and wildly different upbringing and life experience
Sigh. Why does everything have to have some Big Dark Conspiracy behind it?
Nearly everyone that barely graduated high school or just outright dropped out, seems to think that they have the “real story” behind something like Covid. Because they “did their own research”.
These people usually don’t even realize (Dunning-Kruger) that they simply don’t have the skills to do that. That’s why they did so poorly at school and why they didn’t go on to - or finish - a higher degree, at least not in something more difficult to attain. They may not even have basic reading comprehension, probably have poor numeracy skills, and are not even aware of logical fallacies. The likelihood of them being auto-didactic is not very high.
It’s exhausting.
And morons and bad faith actors like Gabbard feed into it, FFS.
Because ridiculous conspiracy theories are the only way to thread the needle when you absolutely must ignore Occam’s razor.
At the same time there’s a whole bunch of idiots running around thinking they know everything just because they paid the university tax and got a piece of paper
Imagine someone of average intelligence, then 50% of people are dumber than that and maybe 10% are functionally equivalently intelligent. Maybe 40% of the population are switched on, now throw in some politics and wildly different upbringing and life experience