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I dated someone who started the butter diet online. they did it as a joke and then these fat people started to eat raw butter and shit themselves fatter.
most probably have high cholesterol or blocked arteries by now.
dumb people gonna dumb.
Deliberately posting misinformation and misleading people doesn't make them dumb. It just makes the world a worse, more confusing place.
deliberately believing everything you read online without questioning the validity, makes the world a worse more confusing place.
it also makes you dumb as shit.
How deep do you go? Believing a post on 4chan? Dumb. Believing a comment on reddit? Dumb. Believing an article on a reputable news site? Dumb. Believing a study funded entities that may encourage a bias? Dumb. Believing a study from scientists that would rather cause sensation than do good science? Dumb. Guess the only solution is to put on that lab coat, get a doctorate and do the experiment yourself, huh? Or maybe put the blame on people spreading misinformation instead of the victims it hurts. There isn't enough time in the fucking day to validate everything you come across, and if you're not doing the experiments yourself you're trusting someone.
nobody is asking you to either validate everything nor trust anything.
you're telling me you can't take something at face value until you've collected enough secondary information to validate or verify it?
That's what you're saying. Do you know what you're saying?
reading/seeing something and believing something are not the same.
if I told you that the metric for a meter was incorrect and it's actually longer than what we currently understand it to be, would you believe me? would you take that information at face value and attempt to validate it somehow? what would make you believe it's true?