| 1 Nicolaas Vroom | A Psychological Vaccine Against Fake News | Friday 21 October 2022 |
| 2 Timothy Golden | Re :A Psychological Vaccine Against Fake News | Friday 21 October 2022 |
| 3 Timothy Golden | Re :A Psychological Vaccine Against Fake News | Sunday 23 October 2022 |
| 4 Nicolaas Vroom | Re :A Psychological Vaccine Against Fake News | Monday 24 October 2022 |
| 5 Timothy Golden | Re :A Psychological Vaccine Against Fake News | Tuesday 25 October 2022 |
A Psychological Vaccine Against Fake News
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IMO the most important weapon against fake news, or to decide what is true or false is education. Explain in as simple and as clear as possible language how something functions or operates, backed up by means of experiments. A nice document to read about vaccines is this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaccine
Regarding vaccines it is important: First to describe the disease against which the vaccine protects you. Secondly to describe in as much detail as possible how the vaccine performs this task, backed up by means of experiments. Thirdly test that the vaccine actual protects you. This is dangerous for a completely new vaccine. This is extra difficult for a vaccine that is an update of a previous vaccine.
Regarding fake news and the inoculation theory. First describe in detail what fake news is in general. Secondly describe how inoculation theory in general operates or functions and how it decides what is true and what is false. (Or right and wrong) IMO to answer this question in general is almost impossible.
Instead of 'in general' you can also read: 'in case of a virus' How difficult it is to evaluate all the news about the corona pandemic becomes clear when you study face masks. Why was there so much mistrust about the use of face mask, while face mask where already in use during the Spanish flue? The use of face mask is almost the first line of defence against the spreading of almost any infection or contagious disease.
In the article the following example is discussed: "In particular, we used a screenshot of a real website that hosts a bogus petition allegedly signed by thousands of scientists claiming that global warming is a hoax" Next, we read: "The warning and weakened dose are meant to trigger people’s vigilance and attention (to start the production of mental antibodies), and the message offers people concrete ways to resist the misinformation. After people were inoculated, participants were exposed to a full dose of the misinformation." This raises two important questions: 1) What are these mental antibodies? 2) What does inoculation mean in this example.
My conclusion is that in general to investigate what is right or wrong requires a detailed scientific investigation. Except if people on purpose produce misinformation.
Nicolaas Vroom https://www.nicvroom.be/
Our best practice is to practice media accountability. If Covid-19 was manmade then the early stories of its natural origins put out by British and American science sources do deserve scrutiny. Such scientific mouthpieces must be very handy. This of course is the unspeakable which will go snubbed even on youtube, which has a pretty wide tolerance, but not this wide. That already global biological warfare has occurred is not in the analysis. I believe there is at least room for hedge analysis on this one. That an orange haired man looking to beat China would ask his deep what his options are and pick that one is entirely believable.
That Ukraine as a follow on to cover this evil has to be even more evil; well; there you have it. The American president in bed with Nazis. The pileup of lies in their lightest form so fluffy you could butter them and enjoy eating them... until you realize there is nothing there but the butter you put on them. This is the nature of the Ukraine war. It is a march to nowhere fast. It is ultimately a war of attrition. We will yield Europe to seed ourselves feeling richer... and yet we will lose this war. Again that buttery nothingness awaits your tastebuds. Time to put on a second layer of socks.
Independent journalists are the only way to go now. If you are one who feels that you can still get some information from NPR or the NYT: you are mislead by these sources. There are no intellectual sources with integrity and zeal for truth like they used to be. Give them up and seek out the best independent journalists you can find: https://thegrayzone.com
| > | On Friday, October 21, 2022 at 4:25:18 AM UTC-4, Nicolaas Vroom wrote: |
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This posting is a reaction op the article: "A Psychological Vaccine
Against Fake News". To read the article select this link:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349693716_A_Psychological_Vaccine_Against_Fake_News
Written by Rakoen Maertens and Sander van der Linde.
Both from University of Cambridge UK.
My conclusion is that in general to investigate what is right or wrong
requires a detailed scientific investigation.
Except if people on purpose produce misinformation.
Nicolaas Vroom https://www.nicvroom.be/ |
Is China's zero covid policy a readiness system for a fresh release? This best explains their behavior: in the event of another biological attack containment is paramount.
| > | On Friday, October 21, 2022 at 4:25:18 AM UTC-4, Nicolaas Vroom wrote: |
| > > | This posting is a reaction op the article: "A Psychological Vaccine Against Fake News". |
| > | These sorts of analyses hardly confront the problem. |
| > | The government through back doors controls the media. |
| > | Independent journalists are the only way to go now. |
| > | There are no intellectual sources with integrity and zeal for truth like they used to be. |
| > | Give them up and seek out the best independent journalists you can find: https://thegrayzone.com |
Reading from my comments you can conclude what the problem is: How to decide what is right and what is wrong? Assuming that no ones lies. One solution is presented at this link: https://www.goviralgame.com/en. "A 5-MINUTE GAME THAT HELPS PROTECT YOU AGAINST COVID-19 MISINFORMATION". Please select "ABOUT" But this creates a new problem: Is it possible by means of sort of game to decide IN GENERAL, what is true and what is false IMO the simple answer is: NO. If there is anyone who can explain how the game works, please do.
Nicolaas Vroom. https://www.nicvroom.be
Social animals we are. Still, the idea that the truth does ultimately exist; difficult as it is to find: this is the position of a truth seeker. We have to remain observant. When most of our observations prove to be obfuscated by others we turn away from that society. There is plenty else to do. That the public feels so shut down by the politics is entirely believable. Caught with two bad choices a no vote leaves minority rule in power. Democracy defeated. We do seem to be engaged in a downward trend in terms of integrity and credibility. Trying to assess what this means at the large scale I suppose does lead me back around to where I started: we see the indications of collapse. The sorts of schmucks that are running things: are they winners or are they losers? To spit upon the ruling class is the majority opinion. We are unable to elect decent rulers in this corrupt system.
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