Science — the kind that requires evidence and reason.

[PopeBeanie]

Musk has blinders on like other groups he promotes on X who have trouble separating facts from conspiracy theories. I first realized this when he completely misunderstood and discounted how rapid Covid tests work, and what can cause false positives or negatives. He ranted against them, before many people learned how crucial they would become. Now they even detect multiple viruses in one kit. True, not 100% accurate, but still more useful than very expensive tests, as they’re the most accurate test for determining when infected people are most likely able to spread their infection to others.

One clue to detecting misinformation, e.g. false beliefs about vaccines, is when vax deniers rarely cite evidence that includes statistics on illneses and deaths caused when unvaxxed people catch and spread Covid. Even when a million people died from it, and NYC had to use refrigerator trucks to hold dead bodies. Plus, Long Covid can last months, or even years, sometimes with horrible debilitation(s) and pain. Again, mostly preventable with vaxes, as per recent research.

Today (and probably for years?), Musk has been undermining people’s understanding of Covid vaccines.

Musk says 60k people in Germany have died from Covid vaccine.
https://open.substack.com/pub/newsguardtech/p/musk-gives-a-50-million-view-boost?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Thanks again to Reg for providing another useful source of information (where the article above came from): “A newsletter about how false claims spread—and who’s behind them.”
https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/

And here’s a realible source of data, recent research on human diseases and their prevention, which CDC was better known for reliable data (around the world) before-RFK days. I get their daily newsletter, and they’ve produced a weekly podcast for years since Covid. Includes stories on all common, infectious diseases.

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/

[TheEncogitationer]

PopeBeanie:

Musk is out of his depth on vaccines (and probably on rocketry too, judging from how he like to blow shit up on his launch pads)…

But just gotta say, Germany isn’t helping it’s case by naming it’s vaccine regulator the Paul Ehrlich Institute, if this is the same one who wrote The Population Bomb which held that we humans reached beyond Earth’s carrying capacity when the population reached 4.5 billion. Doesn’t sound like Paul Ehrlich would want more life-saving vaccines.

Here is one of his many speeches on overpopulation and depletion of resources. A real life of the block party!:

• This reply was modified 9 hours, 4 minutes ago by TheEncogitationer. Reason: I misspelled "launch pads" as "laugh pads.". How Freudianof me to speak of Musk this way

[PopeBeanie]

I get the connection you’re making, but really, is there more than just the name of institutions that will discredit good science in a different discipline?

I’ll take as a win, the fact that we agree about Musk.

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