• pyre@lemmy.world
    link
    fedilink
    arrow-up
    109
    ·
    24 hours ago

    “your statistic is false because I have an anecdote” is literally the entire basis of the conservative understanding of science.

    union workers don’t make more on average because I earn half a dollar more.

    global warming isn’t happening because I brought a snowball.

    vaccines cause death because my friend walked out of a clinic after a shot and got hit by a self driving tesla.

    • SaharaMaleikuhm@feddit.org
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      1
      ·
      7 hours ago

      “conservative understanding”
      Sounds like all conservatives are idiots or rather idiots are the ones who are politically conservative.

      • pyre@lemmy.world
        link
        fedilink
        arrow-up
        1
        ·
        3 hours ago

        it’s both. conservatism is both appealing to stupid people and it compounds stupidity.

    • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@lemmy.world
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      6
      ·
      14 hours ago

      It really is a kind of solipsism, emotional immaturity as a self-justifying worldview. Problems don’t exist until they impact me personally, repeat and nauseam.

    • Hadriscus@lemm.ee
      link
      fedilink
      arrow-up
      23
      arrow-down
      1
      ·
      22 hours ago

      vaccines cause death because my friend walked out of a clinic after a shot and got hit by a self driving tesla.

      😂