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<p>It always amazes me how often shit is exposed & frankly, no one gives a shit. People get so fixated on stuff that isn't true and yet when they are presented by something that has been exposed as true they do... nothing.</p>
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<p>Look at what is happying in Flint in the US over its water. By any definition that should fit right in the wheehouse of any number of "its a conspiracy!" nutters. Hell the Califonia Methane leak is fucking HUGE. But they would rather focus on stuff that never happened. Cause if they focus on actual issues, they need to do something about them, and also the issues go away. People bleat on about the moon landing, but there has already been a conspiracy re NASA - the design oversights on the Challenger. And it came out 30 seconds after it happened. And no one really gave a shit. People went "oh.. so beauracracy & human error, well thats boring as fuck, show me Area 51!!!" </p>
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<p>Or when a guy works at Goldman Sachs, or Haliburton or Exxon. Then becomes a senator or VP or president with financing from Goldman Sachs, or Haliburton or Exxon, and passes laws that help Goldman Sachs, or Haliburton or Exxon, then ends his term & goes back to work at Goldman Sachs, or Haliburton or Exxon. Thats kinda the definition of the shit Con. Theorists should be wanking over & yet... nothing.</p>
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<p>9/11, the moon landing, autism, even climate change denial, these are not going anywhere. Those making a living - or just milking the publicity & smugness of "I've done the research!" can milk that forever (or in the case of CCD their lifetime at least). Its akin to saying "the earth will end 2072!" & starting a cult. You can milk that right thru'. Saying "the earth will end 2012" was good in 1950, but a beginers error if you were saying it in 2008.</p>
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<p>Its the difference bettween worshiping the Sun (as our ancestors did) & God (as many of us do). One of those can be proven to not actually be a giant glowing chariot ridden across the sky, so that is not the one you want to harp on about 24/7.</p>
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<p>Conspiracy theorists don't want to be proved right, because they can't be. They've cherry picked their causes for that reason. </p>
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<p>The Flint water supply thing is seriously fucked up, especially when you read the thing that could have saved all the issue would have cost about $100 a day. </p>
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<p>The Flint water supply thing is seriously fucked up, especially when you read the thing that could have saved all the issue would have cost about $100 a day. </p>
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<p>America is a pretty fucked up country, with a really scewed moral compass. </p>
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<p>And yet, people are told from a very early age that if they work hard enough, they can get anywhere. It may be true that education and hard work will improve any circumstance, except in the face of unforseeable tragedy, but ultimately where you start from has a BIG say in where you go:</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/the-pencilsword-on-a-plate'>http://thewireless.co.nz/articles/the-pencilsword-on-a-plate</a></p>
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<p>Survey: Anti-Vaxxers do not believe Dunning-Kruger Effect applies to them</p>
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<p>Researchers from Yale University released the results of a study which discovered that anti-vaxxers do not believe the Dunning-Kruger effect applies to them. The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias where unskilled individuals tend to suffer from <a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_superiority'>illusory superiority</a>, mistakenly rating their ability much higher than is accurate.</p>
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<p>In the study, 2,359 parents were culled from the donor list of the National Vaccine Center of Information, an anti-vaccine group. Subjects were asked a series of questions on their attitudes and general knowledge about vaccines. They were then shown the following explanation of the Dunning–Kruger effect:</p>
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<p>“<em>Incompetence does not leave people disoriented, perplexed, or cautious. Instead, the incompetent are often blessed with an inappropriate confidence, buoyed by something that feels to them like knowledge.†</em></p>
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<p>In the main part of the study, subjects were asked to rate whether they felt the explanation applied to them. According to the lead study investigator, Dr. Allison Ditz, “We were completely unstunned. The results blew absolutely no one away. Only 1% of the anti-vaxxers felt that the Dunning–Kruger effect applied to them in the slightest. This is despite the fact no one scored higher than a 58% on our vaccine quiz and none were able to explain the difference between a T and B lymphocyte.â€</p>
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<p>Instead, 98% of the subjects rated their knowledge of vaccines as “extremely, highly superior†and felt the Dunning–Kruger effect best applied to vaccine advocates such as Dr. Paul Offit as well as everyone at the CDC, FDA, WHO, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, UNICEF, and anyone who works for a pharmaceutical company</p>
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<p>In a follow-up study of 1,419 of the original study subjects, 97% of them explained their original responses by saying “I did my own research.â€</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://thespudd.com/survey-anti-vaxxers-do-not-believe-dunning-kruger-effect-applies-to-them/'>http://thespudd.com/survey-anti-vaxxers-do-not-believe-dunning-kruger-effect-applies-to-them/</a></p>
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<p>From The Spudd.</p>
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<p>More Winger bait, he's been busy saying Gardisal kills on another forum lately.</p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://thespudd.com/survey-anti-vaxxers-do-not-believe-dunning-kruger-effect-applies-to-them/'>http://thespudd.com/survey-anti-vaxxers-do-not-believe-dunning-kruger-effect-applies-to-them/</a></p>
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<p>From The Spudd.</p>
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<p>And yet, people are told from a very early age that if they work hard enough, they can get anywhere. It may be true that education and hard work will improve any circumstance, except in the face of unforseeable tragedy, but ultimately where you start from has a BIG say in where you go:</p>
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<p>Probably the number one conspiracy theory thats true & well known & still sold in America today is "everyone, no matter where they start, can be successful! Its a level playing field". Statistically, its almost impossible to move out of your "class" in the US. Yet weirdly people earning fuck all still vote for lower taxes on the next band up because they 100% believe they will get into that band soon. But they won't.</p> -
The world's elite are going to take control politics, banking, oil and arms by using extra terrestrial technology on the inhabitants of planet earth.<br><br>
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<p>I have got so much respect now for Shane Warne.</p>
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<p>He's like a class A wind up merchant.</p>
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<p>I have got so much respect now for Shane Warne.</p>
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<p>He's like a class A wind up merchant.</p>
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<p>Or retarded. I really hope its the former. Either way, there some real food for thought there from Shane.</p>
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<p>Have we reached peak Winger?</p>
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<p><span style="color:rgb(50,61,79);font-family:'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(220,225,229);">I've raised this point before</span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(50,61,79);font-family:'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(220,225,229);">MACRO evolution is crap</span><br><span style="color:rgb(50,61,79);font-family:'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(220,225,229);">MICRO evolution is a proven fact</span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(50,61,79);font-family:'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(220,225,229);">But the believers that a mathematically impossible event happened almost by magic just because it happened over a long time don't want to split these two (totally and completely) different theories. As the it all happened by magic macro evolution devotees has no evidence or science supporting their beliefs. It's but micro evolution occurs and well its kind of the same thing. And how else can it be explained. And lets demonize or laugh at anyone who doesn't agree.</span><br><br><span style="color:rgb(50,61,79);font-family:'Lucida Grande', 'Trebuchet MS', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;background-color:rgb(220,225,229);">Re aliens. If we were created by genetic manipulation by an alien species. Who set themselves up as gods and created us as a slave species. It still doesn't explain where the other life on earth came from. But at times I do wonder. Humans seem to be quite limited. So were does all these amazing technology originate from. Maybe the aliens are still with us. They might even look like us but with their genetic structures still in an advanced state. And they are slowly releasing technologies like computers to us</span></p>
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<p><a data-ipb='nomediaparse' href='http://forum.planetrugby.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=70523'>http://forum.planetrugby.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=70523</a></p> -
My god, Winger must be a hoot in real life! Just not intentionally....
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That forum looked like it could have been a copy and paste from here too.<br><br>
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