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Skepticism, Science & Pseudoscience

trotsky

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4. I think this is all symptomatic of the rabid anti-intellectualism that abounds.

Reply to Odin2005 (Original post)

Thu May 24, 2012, 08:01 AM

May 2012

The same effect was seen after Y2K. "Meh, those pointy-headed computer nerds warned everything would collapse, and it was fine! Not even a hiccup!"

No thought at all to the decade+ of preparation and fixes that were put in place to PREVENT the collapse that almost certainly would have happened.

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the WHO fucked up on the Swine Flu pandemic, and so it's a Big Pharma shill! [View all] Odin2005 May 2012 OP

I worked as a doctor with the WHO. laconicsax May 2012 #1

If the scientists had dismissed it and said there was no threat, that would be proof of shilling too TheWraith May 2012 #2

Can you elaborate for those of us who haven't been following Fukushima that closely? laconicsax May 2012 #3

I think this is all symptomatic of the rabid anti-intellectualism that abounds. trotsky May 2012 #4

I'm a programmer drm604 May 2012 #7

Yup. It's amazing how much CT folks are willing to ignore MineralMan May 2012 #8

I'm not so sure that it would have seriously affected the planet. drm604 May 2012 #9

BTW regarding swine flu TZ May 2012 #5

I have pointed that out before and I have given up trying... Odin2005 May 2012 #6

My recollection of the swine flu era SheilaT Jun 2012 #10

And by an amazing coincidence... laconicsax Jun 2012 #11

Yes, it really was a relatively low occurrence. SheilaT Jun 2012 #12

It's easy to make those appraisals after the fact. laconicsax Jun 2012 #13

At the time, one soldier, one person only, at Ft. Dix, got SheilaT Jun 2012 #14

immunity from the previous swine flu epidemic played a role TZ Jun 2012 #15

I'm guessing 1912 is a typo. It was 1918. SheilaT Jun 2012 #16