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Originally Posted by #-3
Honestly there is very little reason not to hold climate deniers, natural/organic food advocates, religious people, flat earthers..... all in the same regard. But I think the best tact is to be charitable and ask questions.
Why do you think 10s of the thousands of doctors would lie to you?
How many people suffer vaccine injuries / what are injuries?
Did you know Wakefeilds papers and licenses were revoked?
The foundationless beliefs are routed in personal identity and virtue signalling to a perceived ingroup. Telling people they are idiots just flags you as being in the outgroup and not important to engage with. But if you listen to them and ask real questions, you might get them thinking, and thinking about any of these questions for a short period of time will chip away at their priors.
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This is my takeaway from the Netflix doc, Beyond the Curve. Seeing the society of flat earthers, I felt sympathy and empathy for them, and one of the astro physicists who spoke said we don't reach these people with insults or mocking them.
Its so much harder though with vaccinations, because they have such serious consequences and could end up in very sick and or dead children.
But if we want to reach these people we have to engage them nicely it seems, not that it will convince all of them but every few we get back to reality is a big step in turning this tide back.
Also, it needs to be mentioned, on social media, there is an army of fake accounts and hyperactive anti-vaxxers who go to any posts and reports on vaccinations with multiple identities and flood the comments with their anti-vax tropes.
So the perception of them online is that they are far more than they really are.
This excellent podcast covers this and many other disinformation tactics, highly recommend anyone slightly interested check it out.
https://samharris.org/podcasts/145-information-war/