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Title text: The vaccine stuff seems pretty simple. But if you take a closer look at the data, it's still simple, but bigger. And slightly blurry. Might need reading glasses.


Transcript[Cueball, White Hat and Megan walking]

Cueball: I try to meet people where they are, but I have such a hard time with anti-vaxxers.

[Zoom out; a tree to the right is visible]

Cueball: The pandemic brought with it so much confusing stuff.
Cueball: Ambiguous data, weird tradeoffs, disagreements, dilemmas, and uncertainty.

[Zoom in on Cueball]

Cueball: It just feels like a miracle that the best and most effective intervention to reduce suffering also turned out to be one of the easiest and simplest.
Cueball: That never happens!

[Cueball, White Hat and Megan sitting around the tree]

Cueball: I hate that people are working so hard to make it complicated when it's one of the few things in this world that isn't.


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[–] Polar@lemmy.ca 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I told someone I don't believe in their magical sky creature, I believe in science. They told me the "magical sky creature created science", so then I asked why they are against science if their God created it?

Never got a response. Religion is just picking and choosing your way through life while using a magical sky creature as your scape goat.

[–] jasondj@ttrpg.network 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

That’s so easy to answer though. They’ve been using the explanation for a while.

“God made science to test our faith”.

[–] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah...God could make a bunch of rocks that look exactly like a skeleton, but random chance can't make amino acides...

[–] tryptaminev@feddit.de 2 points 1 year ago

At least that is consistent with the "god gave us free will to test if we are good" bullshit.