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bluewhiteandred on scored.co
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personally I think they're valid conversations, just contained to their own spaces
I don't really care about optics so that's kind of neither here nor there, I find good questions are raised on these topics that people who instinctively reject the viewpoints fail to ask
> we haven't been to space
frequently the van allen belts are brought up as being difficult to get past, also about how we allegedly had the tech to go to the moon decades ago but haven't been back, but even recent missions still don't stream video proof of their alleged flights start to finish, making it easy to doubt that we have been to space. Meanwhile we have lots of problems unsolved on earth while space programs are thought to steal money from the public.
> earth is flat
In fairness I do think the evidence leans in the globe direction, but I find some claims fascinating because if you look sometimes at water - like a lake - it appears to be level, but that should be impossible on a round earth which would curve and push water in different directions (that is hard to visualize). Also sometimes when the clouds have sunlight coming through them, it looks like the sun is closer and local, like on the flat earth model. However, both of these are said to be "optical illusions"... if so, how illegitimate is it for the flat earthers to claim various visual evidences of the earth being round are "optical illusions" as well as a counter-argument?
Ultimately this discussion or debate shouldn't matter, there should be no stigma if you want to believe the earth is round or flat, it's kind of absurd the belief is made in to some kind of "taboo" people aren't allowed to hold to. Mostly I think this should be tolerated as... it doesn't really affect my day-to-day life as a belief, like someone being a Communist for example in contrast does.
> no virus has ever been isolated
I thought I read this was true, but the point about "terrain theory" is correct that people don't just get sick because of various pathogens but their susceptibility to illness depends on how they take care of their body and if they build their immune system up or not, so it's something worth talking about. Also I think people on this topic bring up how a bunch of alleged pandemics coincide with other "poisons" that were being released, like radio waves and the spanish flu - https://www.metabunk.org/threads/claim-spanish-flu-caused-by-radio-waves.11188/
I don't really care about optics so that's kind of neither here nor there, I find good questions are raised on these topics that people who instinctively reject the viewpoints fail to ask
> we haven't been to space
frequently the van allen belts are brought up as being difficult to get past, also about how we allegedly had the tech to go to the moon decades ago but haven't been back, but even recent missions still don't stream video proof of their alleged flights start to finish, making it easy to doubt that we have been to space. Meanwhile we have lots of problems unsolved on earth while space programs are thought to steal money from the public.
> earth is flat
In fairness I do think the evidence leans in the globe direction, but I find some claims fascinating because if you look sometimes at water - like a lake - it appears to be level, but that should be impossible on a round earth which would curve and push water in different directions (that is hard to visualize). Also sometimes when the clouds have sunlight coming through them, it looks like the sun is closer and local, like on the flat earth model. However, both of these are said to be "optical illusions"... if so, how illegitimate is it for the flat earthers to claim various visual evidences of the earth being round are "optical illusions" as well as a counter-argument?
Ultimately this discussion or debate shouldn't matter, there should be no stigma if you want to believe the earth is round or flat, it's kind of absurd the belief is made in to some kind of "taboo" people aren't allowed to hold to. Mostly I think this should be tolerated as... it doesn't really affect my day-to-day life as a belief, like someone being a Communist for example in contrast does.
> no virus has ever been isolated
I thought I read this was true, but the point about "terrain theory" is correct that people don't just get sick because of various pathogens but their susceptibility to illness depends on how they take care of their body and if they build their immune system up or not, so it's something worth talking about. Also I think people on this topic bring up how a bunch of alleged pandemics coincide with other "poisons" that were being released, like radio waves and the spanish flu - https://www.metabunk.org/threads/claim-spanish-flu-caused-by-radio-waves.11188/
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