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Kevin Sorbo quoting Dr. Toby Rogers #conspiracy #pratt

Confirmation bias is the fallacious tendency of humans to make flawed causal associations and generalizations, based on previous, potentially wrong assumptions and what we are already looking for, like with a-priori conclusions. It's an important part of science to deal with these common human errors, the same reason why personal anecdotes and experiences are not useful to draw conclusions.

@Zinnia #182441

Excellent comment, I will only add a precision about placebo: it is a system to deal with expected error ranges and the uncertainty and complexity of biological reactions, in a double blind experiment setting. This means that quacks claiming that their products "activate/exploit placebo" or "have at least 15% efficiency like placebo" are misleading: the "effect" cannot be relied on as medicine. If a specific molecule has any effect, it is never the "placebo effect", studies using placebo must have determined it to have an actual effect, versus the error range placebo is used to account for.

Kevin Sorbo #conspiracy #dunning-kruger #wingnut

Did you know that identitarian fascists also promote decreased intelligence? Evidence demonstrated that a healthy society performs better, including mentally. To deny that, racialists and eugenists promote pseudoscience misconstruing color and IQ performance as genetically induced inferiority. History shows that the same people and color, when less oppressed and healthier, is like any other healthy society in terms of performance. By fighting against general healthcare, one allows other countries who consider it important to outperform them. Have you noticed how much of the best science that used to be done in the US is now done elsewhere? Have you noticed the incredible ignorance required to subscribe to Sorbo-style madness? Have you noticed how dictatorial regimes are still succeeding to weaken the West with their information operations and interference? They seed and the madness from within spreads like cancer. Cancer is used as an analogy, but in a context where it makes sense: misbehaving cells cause disease in the organism, just like disinformation harms society from within, and some people more than others.

Kevin Sorbo #wingnut

There's evidence of think tanks and false polling houses pushing doctored data since a long time in preparation for election denial conspiracy theorists. Also evidence that Russia in its foreign influence campaigns also promoted that. Before Trump was president. When Trumpists started their "stolen election" disinformation campaign, there already were disinformation sources they could use in their arguments. Still, misrepresentation with select usual fraud cases and doctored data did not convince the courts, in the sustained propaganda show to promote the false conspiracy theory that Biden was not elected normally. Because there was no evidence of massive fraud. But investigations did discover and highlight evidence of conspiracies, by the Trumpist racketeering mob that was trying to cover its own activity, accusing others of doing the same. It's a long process, because it must run legitimately. Not only a propaganda show, this time.

Kevin Sorbo #wingnut

False equivalence, read about criticial thinking skills. Putting up a straw man of Biden with false conspiracy theories of widely opening up borders, when little changed in border policy. The reason being to promote panic, fascism and draconian measures.

(I only realized that I already posted before after posting this, I was reviewing FSTDT's Sorbo material).

Kevin Sorbo #conspiracy #dunning-kruger

Like most of his FSTDT featured one liners, a type of strange sarcastic trolling "joke". People may identify as of a certain ideology or may identify their gender. Conspiracy theorist is a description (someone who promotes conspiracy theories, grandiose fantasies accusing the wrong people for the wrong things), not an identity, even if it's common for identitarians to fall into a parallel world of false conspiracy theories, part of the extremist radicalization indoctrination.

Kevin Sorbo #fundie

"Secretly knowing that God exists" is not atheism, the lack of belief in deities. One doesn't need to be an atheist or to be angry to understand the importance of human rights and separation of church and state. Christians may not want to be persecuted by a militant "Christian" cult's enforced theocracy who declares them heretics, for instance. This is not about normal Christianity, love, comfort against death, helping the poor, hope... It's a radical political militant movement wanting to demonize normal society and impose its ideology. Identitarian fascist groups wanting to use religion as an excuse to justify their abuses and manipulate. It also taints normal Christianity by making it less appealing: moderate Christians and outsiders see their irrational fear mongering and hate propaganda, including these delusory persecution complex promotional films, that even promote extremist madness conspiracy theories like chemtrails (adherents sound like paranoid schizophrenics to the non-radicalized). Thus, "hate" here also seems to be psychological projection.

Wayne Allyn Root #conspiracy #wingnut

Makia Freeman #crackpot #quack #conspiracy

thormemeson #wingnut #conspiracy #crackpot

unable to supply ammo and fuel to Ukraine in adequate numbers for nationwide a sustained offensive

Reasons very independent of Biden. Shifting the blame with the denial of an extremist Trumpist infiltrated house, a Putin-indoctrinated GOP...

Vox Day #fundie

And I should trust you, the paranoid schizoprenic and nazi, who tells me that he's the only one who's right and pretends to hear or speak for a deity, that the world is so corrupt, that the best knowlege development enterprise ever should be discarded? Who's trying to con me.

Edit/Adding:

evil hates and fears God and that evil hates and fears Jesus Christ and they desperately, desperately want to prevent you from even having a worldview and a perspective that is capable of seeing them for what they are

You're the one telling me that to accept Jesus I must also accept your reality denial, world and science demonization with it, you're not capable of accepting what he's about, so "evil" in your own words. Since knowledge is not about hate, it's not about "hating Jesus" either. This means that "what they are" according to you is a fantasy, that must reject what theologians have discovered, what biologists discovered, what geologists discovered, ... When all of that is essential to properly put things in perspective. So that's what your problem really is. So you're asking me to be ignorant, so that I would perhaps be misled by your own perspective.

Charlie Kirk #conspiracy #pratt #racist #wingnut

Jesse Lee Peterson #crackpot #dunning-kruger

Candace Owens #sexist

It's not because you're stupidly always crying on the web, that all women are like that. Fortunately not. I know of intelligent women who can destroy all of your bullshit.

Ben Garrison #conspiracy #wingnut

JE Aggas #crackpot #magick #wingnut #conspiracy

Various commenters #wingnut #racist #pratt

This is the result of stupidity/lefty propaganda hooking up, you get a generations of arrogant idiots that will blindly surrender their lives for cheap thrills.

Probably better than surrending it for a big baby with orange hair. Also ironic considering the amount of far-right outrage propaganda and the stupid lies promoted. Projection, probably...

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny #wingnut #quack #conspiracy

~~I wondered if #moonbat was appropriate...~~

So some parts are true like the encouraged mass hunting and injustice but it soon enters Tenpenny's fantasy parallel world, the one where vaccines also magnetize and kill people...

Edit/Update: I retract the moonbat suggestion, after having learned that she also promoted neo-nazi propaganda on social networks (although also evaluated to be pro-Putin fake news propaganda targetting conspiracy theorists to accuse Ukraine of bioweapons fabrication, pretend that Putin is fighting the "Deep State", mixed in with the typical parenthetical Jew-marking neo-nazi symbolism; ironically revealing a supposedly nazi-fighting Putin as Putin-Hitler)...

Brotherofsteel5 #racist

Ken Ham #crackpot #dunning-kruger

Wayne Allyn Root #conspiracy #wingnut

Unless you only use them as a record of stress, using those signals in attempt to determine if someone is lying is pseudoscience. For the same reason, if it was actually working, you'd not be promoting it, because of all the lies we're seeing being pushed by your acolytes... Also, you don't really want the government to be the Scientology cult, do you? Oh. You do.

Adding: assuming that technology could reliably detect if someone believes to be saying a lie or not, it would not allow to confirm it. Someone may really believe in falsehoods and make false claims with confidence. To determine if something is true, you need proper methods and reliable sources.

Ken Ham #crackpot #dunning-kruger

The "record" of stories. The fact of evolution. The reason for this denial post, putting up a straw man of science. The stories don't rule out anything because other than including origin myths, its writers were ignorant. For that reason, you will not find direct refutations in the Bible, only modern pseudoscientific apologetic arguments quote mining and reinterpreting old texts. The beginning of science may have been mostly philosophy (once called natural philosophy), that changed with the advent of hard sciences relying on observation of the world and strong evidence. Philosophy is still interesting but also a recipe to remain confused forever, until you begin to discover reality through real science.

I suggest #transphobia for the "man evolving into a woman" nonsense... It's also very ironic because in Ham's favorite myth, the woman comes from a man. Of course, both are false, with sexual reproduction going far before humans and mammals....

Kevin Sorbo #wingnut

Candace Owens #conspiracy

BlackCirce #transphobia

@TBTabby #188440

I can almost hear you stomping your feet in every line.

This reminded me of the husband in Greedy Guts (AKA Little Otik) hitting repeatedly the piece of wood (to become an Otesanek) against a table, saying: "it's wood! wood! wood! It's wood!"

H_T1998; Reasonable-Design_43; SnowMiserForPres; AliceLoverdrive #kinkshaming

Porn is degenerate unless you make it yourself with your partner

That has drawbacks too, versus professional porn acting and productions. Although both can comport actual exploitation, the industry is easier to regulate and actors expect their performance to be published. It's not always the case with home porn, which can be leaked inadvertently or on purpose (i.e. revenge porn), where one may have been compelled to do it or filmed without their knowledge, if it's used to blackmail and control them, etc. That said, it's not necessarily mutually exclusive: couples can certainly do pro porn as well...

Greg Gutfeld #sexist

But isn't she saying that because of her own insecurities about her boyfriend's masculinity, right?

Because everybody else acknowledging it must somehow fit your whataboutism? What about your insecurity? No passe Freudian "psychoanalysis" needed...

Kevin Sorbo #wingnut

Ironically, what about all those farms in red states exploiting people, often illegally? Or the religious institutions, doing the same, legally, because of a system designed to game? How many of those are native whites? What about instituting laws and regulations that would help that? Who does that? Bingo!

Fschmidt #god-complex #psycho #racist #transphobia #conspiracy

If you're American, although it's also because of a problematic history of two main opposing parties, supporting the Democratic party makes sense. But not for the false reasons claimed!

I do not recommend it because of the legal repercussions

It reminds me of people claiming that they're not sinners or criminals because there's supposedly a deity watching them that might treat them bad once they die. Here we have someone aknowledging that their fantasies are actually unlawful, it's not just about imaginary guardians. What is the fantasy? Terrorist mass murder of "members of modern culture". How do you reliably discriminate and evaluate when someone is a "member of modern culture"? How do you rationally justify that those people are harmful, that you're not the threat to society? Remember that it's the imposition of an irreversible "death sentence", without trial or any fair proceeding. By a crazy, not even the law. How will you justify that? Irrational hate and lies won't be convincing. Meditate on why it's unacceptable, not only illegal, but for reasons.

God bless

Fuck that hypocrisy. Read your fucking religious laws.

BlackCirce & OMalley #transphobia

Slavery is a mental condition

Bullshit. Guilt may be immobilizing, but don't confuse that with slavery, troll.

Charlie Kirk #conspiracy #pratt #racist #wingnut

The populist enforcement of the false narrative that they were the rapists is part of systemic racism enforcement. It's designed to radicalize into blaming people because of their color or origin by default. When some are shown to not be guilty, they've still suffered in that system, but that must still be denied, it's an a-priori accusation. I agree that Kirk should get sued, but he's likely not the only one pushing the post-truth mythology. It's also justice distrust disinformation.

BlackCirce #transphobia

@Vgal #188377

Except when they attack them, mistaking a cis woman for a transwoman...

Ben Garrison #conspiracy #wingnut

@shy #188355

I just wonder how someone's mind can actually manage to somehow accept, deny, or reconcile such cognitive dissonance

It's often difficult to be 100% sure, but sometimes the answer is just a business model based on outrage, amplification, clicks, ads and donations...

"anti-Trump verdict"

Trumpist bullshit as usual.

It should not come as any great surprise

And there are good reasons for that, nothing to do with democrats or voodoo... Everything you're denying, sucking a certain mushroom.

Candace Owens #conspiracy

I know this is a heated topic of debate

This is exactly what uncertainty propaganda is about, pretending that it's a legitimate debate and trying to agitate. It's not sensitive because vaccines are dangerous, but because of the overwhelming evidence for their effectiveness at managing epidemics and the impact on society anti-science, anti-health management campaigns have, the harm caused. This means that conspiracy theorists harm society by pushing fear mongering propaganda claiming that vaccination harms. It also is institutional distrust propaganda, something weaponized by fascists for post-truth populism. The latter may include forcing quackery down your throat, something non-effective or even actually harmful. Meanwhile, the actual problem, a viral epidemic, for instance, is not being properly addressed.

Also important here is the fact that it's HPV that is being promoted (HPV vaccines being attacked), because it's a virus that's being used to blame and limit women freedom (addressing the problem increases their freedom and is perceived by patriarchy to "promote immorality" (not promoting subjugation))... I've heard the "sex practices causing cancer" arguments confusing HPV into it. They do the same about abortion. Even contraceptives... I've heard a teacher tell a student caught with a condom: "you'll catch AIDS!" when ironically, condoms when properly used are effective against AIDS transmission, precisely. It's the same old "sex is only for conception" nonsense.

Wayne Allyn Root #conspiracy #wingnut

Eventually no Republican will ever be elected again

Because of people like you, showing evidence that it's not legitimate? You're saying yourself that most of it are lost in false conspiracy theories.

Vince LaRue #fundie

God provided His words in English in 1611, and He spoke for the final time in Spanish in 1865

WTFed.

Also, it seems that people can't agree on who Shiloh would be...

Jesse Lee Peterson #sexist #wingnut

Monica Cole #fundie #wingnut #kinkshaming #conspiracy

Greg Poole #wingnut #racist

@Peacemonger373 #188250

Well said, and they're trying to legitimize that, like "Austrian school of economics" and their think tanks, propaganda and corruption lobbying (that also do a lot of science denial when knowlege inconveniences them)...

various commenters #transphobia

Some people know that they don't look how they would like, it doesn't mean that they don't know who they are. Similar with some cis women that you're persecuting when you're mistaking them for men... In fact, when the possibility of looking closer to one's gender is available, you're fighting against it, too.

Steve Kirsch #conspiracy #wingnut

So you swallow anything anyone says anywhere? There are reasons why the scientific process was developed. There are reasons you are dismissing science and it's not because it failed.

Gilgamesh de Uruk #transphobia #wingnut #racist

You're the one claiming that diversity is not about diversity, it doesn't mean that it's true. I'm white in a diverse family in a diverse society and don't feel threatened.

Edit/Adding: I wonder how many bigotry trolls infest those forums...

Monica Cole #fundie #wingnut #kinkshaming #conspiracy

"Everything I dislike must be a pandora's box opening a gate for demons from hell to enter, because I must turn my bigotry into threats."

"If it's not a Chick Tract, it's evil porn for the grooming and corruption of children."

Jesse Lee Peterson #sexist #wingnut

And why should they listen to a misogynist conspiring to enslave them for his own egotism? Likewise, why should one choose anti-democratic Trumpism over the country? Peterson-Trump affinity?

Greg Poole #wingnut #racist

Wasn't there a federal law prohibiting discrimination over common hair styles? Is hairstyle what you're calling a "stint"?

VestalVirgin #transphobia

In the old times: social control narratives. Now: the same social control narratives, especially the ones targetting kids (and also for big babies).

BTW, I'm a fan of folk stories but it's also obvious when reading their collections how they have been altered for specific audiences and narratives over time. Here we have more of the same, someone who wants to twist one to promote fear about the LGBTQ and men in general. Noah was adapted for monotheism from Utnapishtim too...

I have Grimm collections and when reading them it's interesting the analysis I can make, after having been subjected to that kind of control growing up, then gradually escaping it.

Just an interesting factoid for other fans: Asterix is the result of a previously intended adaptation of Roman de Renart (Reynard the Fox). There are parts of the latter that I appreciated because of its sarcasm in relation to its very Catholic epoch.