Or maybe all of them are false, or incorrectly attribute causality.
How come people realize that they should not trust supposed experts and authorities, and yet those same people drop their skeptical attitude with semi-anonymous and unverified claims on the internet?
It comes down to what people have to gain or lose by lying. The pharmaceutical companies have everything to gain by lying, while the people talking on social media about what the vaccines have done to them and their families could lose friends, family members, jobs or any number of other opportunities because they chose to speak out.
The first thing a man will do for his beliefs is lie, as Schumpeter said.
I'm not saying that such things should not be investigated. On the contrary, they should be. Only that you can't believe unverified claims on the internet while also claiming to be a skeptical person.
I think it has less to do with believing them blindly as it does with being curious about what they have to say. People that are against the vaccine, people that think the vaccine causes adverse side effects, have basically even unpersoned. Just like people that challenge the election or censored on YouTube and other major social media platforms. I am going to go out on a limb here and say that the side being gagged is probably closer to the truth than the one doing the gagging.
For the sake of argument, let's just assume three quarters of these anecdotes are fake.
That still leave thousands of people.
Or maybe all of them are false, or incorrectly attribute causality.
How come people realize that they should not trust supposed experts and authorities, and yet those same people drop their skeptical attitude with semi-anonymous and unverified claims on the internet?
It comes down to what people have to gain or lose by lying. The pharmaceutical companies have everything to gain by lying, while the people talking on social media about what the vaccines have done to them and their families could lose friends, family members, jobs or any number of other opportunities because they chose to speak out.
The first thing a man will do for his beliefs is lie, as Schumpeter said.
I'm not saying that such things should not be investigated. On the contrary, they should be. Only that you can't believe unverified claims on the internet while also claiming to be a skeptical person.
I think it has less to do with believing them blindly as it does with being curious about what they have to say. People that are against the vaccine, people that think the vaccine causes adverse side effects, have basically even unpersoned. Just like people that challenge the election or censored on YouTube and other major social media platforms. I am going to go out on a limb here and say that the side being gagged is probably closer to the truth than the one doing the gagging.