• UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
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    Selection bias. All the survivors will say “See! We didn’t need the Fauchi Ouchie!” while all the dead won’t say anything.

    I’ve straight up been at an event where a speaker asked “Raise your hand if you’ve died because you didn’t get vaccinated! Nobody? That’s what I thought.”

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      Yes, but we’re slowly evolving away the dumbest and most dangerous of the population.

      In the past we sent them running eagerly into the meat grinder of war.

      Now they’re building up like cord wood, and starting to smolder.

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        we’re slowly evolving away the dumbest and most dangerous of the population

        Do you believe that exposure to misinformation is a consequence of genetics? Like, people are just born with an ear uniquely tuned to anti-vax radio, television, and social media?

        Now they’re building up like cord wood, and starting to smolder.

        “RFK Jr is getting his eugenics backwards” is one hell of a take.

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          I believe vulnerability to misinformation is an effect of genetics, and this puts pressure on those genes to go extinct as they are not suited for survival.

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            I believe vulnerability to misinformation is an effect of genetics

            :-/

            And you came to this conclusion… genetically?