Re: [DIYbio] Science literacy

Nathan McCorkle <nmz787@gmail.com> writes:

> I have encountered some "older" person, likely in their 50s or 60s, she
> raises goats and has sold kefir grains for many years. She does not believe
> in viruses, or that they have ever been isolated. She does not believe that
> TEM images are actually of viruses. Apparently due to some quack named
> Stefan Lanka.

Hi Nathan,

I had a talk a few months back with my neighbor (40's gym trainer and
trainer for people selling houses). It was the exact same thing, virus
does not exist, we never saw it. But the discourse was completely whack,
because then he talk about hydroxychloroquine and how it was hidden…
There were a lot of things mixed in his discourse, things about Soros
and Gates responsible for massive immigration, Trump behind the savior
of the country… And that he was right because I read about all those
doctors (and then gave a list of names) that were saying all of that…

Talking with a few people across the country, these beliefs are more
common that I would have thought. And I'm afraid there isn't much to do
when people getting intubated for COVID are telling the doctors that
they are wrong that COVID doesn't exist and that their diagnostic should
be wrong, it is probably cancer… (check that nurse interview, that's
quite a shock)

I listened to a podcast you will probably be interested in, they
talk about how people behaved during the plagues in England:
https://timharford.com/2020/07/cautionary-tales-the-village-of-heroes/

Stay strong, there has always been an obscurantist ground wave that
emerge regularly, but for now, we have all been able to make science
stay strong and make sense of our world…

J.

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