Jordan Klepper continues his journey among the vaccine deniers and MAGAheads. He went to meetings of local school boards which have become the new focal point of the anti-maskers who have been using the public comments portion of the meetings to vent their feverish conspiracy theories. I linked to a compilation of those comments recently.
One of the things I noticed in the Klepper video below is that a couple of the people rationalized their weird beliefs by saying that they had done ‘research’ on it. They seem to think that the scientific-sounding word ‘research’ means finding some sources on the internet that support their beliefs, rather than an evaluation of actual research results supported by empirical data that has been done and carefully analyzed by credible experts.
The new slogan of those opposed to any anti-Covid 19 measures for children that are mandated by the government seems to be “I don’t co-parent with the government”.
I did learn something new, and that is that Satanist rituals involve people wearing masks and standing six feet apart from each other. What more evidence do you need that masks and physical distancing are evil? Wake up, sheeple!
… Satanist rituals involve people wearing masks and standing six feet apart from each other.
Most boring orgy ever.
So, why are the Satanist’s doing this? Do they know something we don’t know? Are they protecting themselves from COVID infections? Are they going to be the only ones left after Christians are extinct because Christians are not wearing masks and standing six feet apart from each other?
I’m just asking questions (JAQing off), but it seems to me that Christian’s can:
Defeat them at their own game!
Wear masks and keep your distance from each other, while continuing to proclaim your allegiance to Jesus, the personal savior!
If that crappy message gets people to wear masks, I’ll use it.
“Research” means “I googled some stuff”
It’d be as if someone read a few postings of my blog and tried to establish a world view from that.
I now cannot recall where I heard or read it, but very recently found a pithy retort to this “do research on it” nonsense. Paraphrasing from memory, “Doing research on the Internet is deciding which fridge to buy, not deciding whether or not experts with years of education and experience are right or not.”
All too often “Doing research on the Internet ” is done by people who don’t have the education to know what they’re looking for, believe chiropractors and naturopaths are more than what they really are, quacks, and who want to show that the “system” won’t control them.
Ima leave this here. I’d provide proper attribution but it’s something from facebook a friend emailed me. His brother (who is also my boss) is leaning anti vaxxer and we’ve been trying to find ways to change his mind:
“They seem to think that the scientific-sounding word ‘research’ means finding some sources on the internet that support their beliefs”
Way too charitable. Like creacrappers with evolution they deliberately change the meaning of the word research with a clear purpose in mind.