HLMenckenFan@lemmy.worldM to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoThere's no such thing as a conservative intellectual — only apologists for right-wing powerwww.salon.comexternal-linkmessage-square81fedilinkarrow-up17cross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
arrow-up17external-linkThere's no such thing as a conservative intellectual — only apologists for right-wing powerwww.salon.comHLMenckenFan@lemmy.worldM to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agomessage-square81fedilinkcross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
minus-squareBlamemeta@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoThe post is absurdly hateful, to the point you wonder if the poster actually thinks this way.
minus-squareRaltoid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·edit-22 years agoYou are aware that scientific studies have shown a clear correlation between conservative thinking and lower cognitive ability?
minus-squareBlamemeta@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoYou can make studies say anything you want. just throw the lab some money. The tobacco studies are a great example of thst.
minus-squareBlamemeta@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoFirst article on google, https://news.sky.com/story/remember-when-cigarettes-were-good-for-you-10371944 Lots of shit in the 40s and 50s claiming tobacco was good for you. All those studies were funded by tobacco companies.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoThere’s nothing there about any studies claiming tobacco was good for you. Just finding doctors to say so.
minus-squaresadreality@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoTobacco industry pkay book is used by big oil, sugar, bad food in general and now tech. Deny until you can’t. Fund fake studies to help your denial arguments. Talk about choice and freedom. Fear monger.
minus-squareBlamemeta@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoHere’s a history.com article. Maybe that’ll be more to you’re liking? https://www.history.com/news/cigarette-ads-doctors-smoking-endorsement
minus-squareSTUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoThen try finding a single study that says the opposite.
minus-squareg0nz0li0@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 years agoIs it hateful, or just critical?
minus-squareRyumast3r@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoHow’s it hateful? At least in a way that modern right wing ideology isn’t?
minus-squareastro_smurf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·2 years agoah, there’s the victimhood the article spoke of
minus-squaretjhart85@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0·2 years agoWell I hated it! --Michael Scott Is basically what all the arguments I’ve seen boil down to
The post is absurdly hateful, to the point you wonder if the poster actually thinks this way.
You are aware that scientific studies have shown a clear correlation between conservative thinking and lower cognitive ability?
You can make studies say anything you want. just throw the lab some money. The tobacco studies are a great example of thst.
Which tobacco studies?
First article on google, https://news.sky.com/story/remember-when-cigarettes-were-good-for-you-10371944
Lots of shit in the 40s and 50s claiming tobacco was good for you. All those studies were funded by tobacco companies.
There’s nothing there about any studies claiming tobacco was good for you. Just finding doctors to say so.
Tobacco industry pkay book is used by big oil, sugar, bad food in general and now tech.
Deny until you can’t. Fund fake studies to help your denial arguments. Talk about choice and freedom. Fear monger.
Here’s a history.com article. Maybe that’ll be more to you’re liking? https://www.history.com/news/cigarette-ads-doctors-smoking-endorsement
Then try finding a single study that says the opposite.
Is it hateful, or just critical?
Just hateful.
How’s it hateful? At least in a way that modern right wing ideology isn’t?
ah, there’s the victimhood the article spoke of
It’s hateful? How exactly?
Well I hated it!
--Michael Scott
Is basically what all the arguments I’ve seen boil down to