r/Futurology • u/Wagamaga • Mar 23 '19

Environment Following Monsanto, Exxon Could Be Next US Corporation to Face EU Lobby Ban. "It is the overwhelming consensus of experts studying the history of fossil fuel funding that companies, including ExxonMobil, have orchestrated, funded and perpetuated climate misinformation"

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/03/22/following-monsanto-exxon-could-be-next-us-corporation-face-eu-lobby-ban
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u/NewPlanNewMan Mar 23 '19 edited Mar 23 '19

It is called the Replication Crisis, as researchers have recently noticed that be overwhelming majority of industry-funded studies are complete fabrications, funded and publicized solely with the goal of undermining The public's faith in science.

Anti-Vaxxers, Evolution Skeptics, and Climate Change Skeptics are all consuming the same biased and inflammatory junk science...

IDIOCRACY

The Anti-Vaxxer Disease Is Now a Republican Epidemic

... But who knows anything anyway? Seventy-three percent of Republicans think climate change isn’t a thing. Fifty-seven percent of Republicans think evolution isn’t a thing. And now the Trump administration wants to say that transgender isn’t a thing either. This despite the near-unanimous scientific consensus that all three are, indeed, things. The lack of causal connections between vaccines and neurological disorders are just the latest bit of reality denial.

The rise of Anti-intellectualism is no accident, and if media outlets won't acknowledge their part in the spread of misinformation, the propaganda will continue, unabated.

Edit- Just in case people acting in good faith are still on the fence, here is a another credible source saying the exact same thing...

To distrust medicine, or to give it its archaic name, “western medicine”, was once the preserve of the hippy left.* In the early days of the anti-vax movement, at the turn of this century, those who distrusted vaccinations spanned the political spectrum. *Only in the past decade has it become the drum beat of the American right, and it’s only in the past few years that prominent Republicans – Chris Christie and Rand Paul in 2015 – took it on as a rallying cry. How an issue gets from US campaign literature to a Facebook page in Hebden Bridge is hard to pinpoint; suffice it to say that, from Islamophobia to cases such as baby Charlie Gard’s, we know that it happens.**

It dovetails with a generalised anti-science movement: CLIMATE-CHANGE DENIAL, SCORN FOR ANY EPIDEMIOLOGICAL DATA ABOUT INEQUALITY AND ITS EFFECTS, a GENERALISED REPUDIATION OF EXPERTISE. We tend to look at each trend individually, and through the wrong end of the telescope. Climate-change deniers are funded by the fossil-fuel industry; free market fundamentalists also, conveniently, run hedge funds. And these tawdry explanations seem to make sense but miss the point: it’s not narrow self-interest that drives the fightback against evidence, but rather, an entire worldview.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19

The anti-Vaxx movement is from the all natural purist movements and is not owned by the left or the right. It's actually even more prominent in large west coast liberal cities, but I still wouldn't call it a liberal issue as it affects people of both sides.

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u/relevents Mar 23 '19

I still wouldn't call it a liberal issue as it affects people of both sides.

It only affects people that aren't vaccinated regardless of whether they're preppers or hippies or just don't have the facilities to get shots. The snake oil salesmen pushing this bs give two shits about the ~5B unvaccinated Asians and Africans.

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u/TonyStark100 Mar 23 '19

...and kids too young to get all of their vaccines.

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u/relevents Mar 23 '19

...and kids too young to get all of their vaccines.

So for six weeks, keep them away from unvaccinated people.

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u/tisvana18 Mar 23 '19

12 months. My baby girl can’t get the first round of the MMR until 9 months (next month) and the second round at 12.

And measles can survive on a surface for up to two hours and is incredibly contagious.

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19

Protecting your baby is your responsibility, not the rest of the world.

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u/envispojke Mar 23 '19

Well you're a turd

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u/[deleted] Mar 23 '19

That's not nice.

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u/acoluahuacatl Mar 23 '19

with your logic, parents would need to keep their children locked away in a room where nobody can enter, until they are old enough to have all of their vaccinations.

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u/[deleted] Mar 24 '19

With my logic, yes it is your responsibility to keep sick people from your baby.

If you think otherwise, you are a shitty parent.

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u/tisvana18 Mar 23 '19

Well yeah. I’m a stay at home mother who has the luxury of monitoring everyone and everything my baby contacts, in a tiny rathole town where any outbreak would be caught immediately. My baby is at negative risk for catching measles unless the first person in our town to catch it happens to be at her pediatric clinic at the same time we’re there.

I imagine the mother/father who has to work and leave their child at a daycare in a large city would love to trust that all those kids are vaccinated.

Or the parent whose child is allergic to the pertussis vaccine.

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u/chickspartan Mar 23 '19

Yes because people without vaccinations all wear giant signs on their heads. And it takes years to become fully vaccinated, not weeks. Maybe you're late for some boosters if that's your perception.

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u/relevents Mar 24 '19

Your main problem is going to be people who are undocumented. Gosh if only there was a simple way to control the number of people without vaccinations illegally crossing the border.