Quote (cambovenzi @ Nov 7 2020 12:09pm)
You are imagining yourself to be on this team of superior beings, better than the lowly anto-science republicans, while you yourself are advocating anti-intellectualism and anti-science views in the most literal sense.
Blindly trusting government to be the arbiters of science, economics and fact and writing off anyone else as akin to a 2nd grade flat earther is not pro-science and its not legitimate.
I imagine myself as superior (from a health standpoint) because I am a board certified internal medicine physician with an additional fellowship and board certifications in critical care ... therefore when I am refuting Trump/hannity memes with education akin to high school graduate then yes I have more objective ground to stand on. My degenerate HS drop out sister in law SHOULD NOT have the same weight as mine in THIS specific topic.
Just as I should have NO WEIGHT in deciding Nuclear energy policy when speaking about this topic with a phd physicist, despite what my “beliefs” are or how many YouTube videos I have watched
This has less to do with “blindly trusting government as arbiters or blah blah”
The accurate argument is having an equally educated person come up with counterviews and have a rational conversation. This is not akin to the average Americans view. Yes the average American can “believe” whatever they want to. Policy deciding is for adults