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RE: 500 followers, almost 1000 SP - Party! And a huge THANK YOU to all charlatans and science-deniers!
Thanks a lot for commenting.
I have high respect and sympathy for the peace movement, but personally, I feel quite a few of the people involved there are a pain in the ass, for exactly the reasons you describe. ;-)
I have no idea why engagement for peace and ignorance seem to go hand in hand so often - it's a pity! I think those people are damaging the whole movement, as it makes it easy for media and people in power to act as if it was only lunatics - if you know what I mean?
I've even more respect for you holding the peace&reason line!
You are welcome :-)
Thanx for the compliment, but to be honest it is not as bad as it seems ;-) There are a lot of great people in the movement who are precise thinkers and are well informed.
Why exactly there are many people in the movement that feel attracted to irrational and unscientific thinking is a mystery to me. A feeble attempt to explain this phenomenon could be, that believing in peace for some people serves as a replacement for religion and the need to connect with something larger than oneself. And as we know, religious believes and rational thinking do not have that much in common. Well, but as I said, that is pure guessing :-D
My belief in peace is not derived from any spiritual or whatever source, but the simple insight into the general law, that you should treat others in the way you want to be treated.
I totally know what you mean that ignorant people are harmful to the movement as a whole and whenever I can, I trie to bring in my perspectives and I've already had some good discussions.
Another thought on the whole issue, when it e.g. comes to being sceptical towards or even against vaccines might be explained as an undifferentiated overreaction to everything that comes from the field of big pharma companies. As we know from cases such as CONTERGARN, pharma companies do not like to be held liable for their products. So, a general suspicion towards those players is well justified.
Have you already published an article on vaccination and the criticism brought forward by anti-vaccination people? I have read through some of your blog entries already, but have not found something on this issue yet.
Have a great Sunday :-) Ah, and thx for the upvote - much appreciated!
ah yeah, suspicion is well justified - but imo, that's why these questions have to be assessed scientifically, not emotionally.
Yeah, I had a quite famous dispute with an anti-vaxxer that cumulated into these 3 posts:
https://steemit.com/health/@sco/investigating-the-truth-behind-steemtruth-s-truth-part-1-vaccines-do-not-stop-desease
https://steemit.com/health/@sco/investigating-the-truth-behind-steemtruth-s-truth-part-2-vaccines-increase-your-chances-of-catching-infectious-disease
https://steemit.com/vaccines/@sco/investigating-the-truth-behind-steemtruth-s-truth-part-3-vaccines-kill-children
His false claims made me angry enough to put a lot of effort into it^^
Thx for the three articles on anti-vaxxers - well done! I have read them all and I really like your cool and sarcastic style apart from the scientific precision :-D
Nevertheless, I have found some minor language mistakes in most of your articles, some "a"s where there should be "an"s, some minor spelling errors and some past tense where the present perfect would be more appropriate (I hope you don't mind me mentioning this here).
Since I have found all your articles really interesting and entertaining to read, I'd like to offer my service to proofread your articles prior to publication. Since I am a minor steemian I would regard this as a compensation for my small voting power. Just let me know if you are interested, I would be happy to work with you and support you with my skills.
All the best and kindest regards!
Thx a lot for that offer, but I fear I would find an external proof-reading step very tiresome...when I've finished a post, I want to post it^^
What would be great though is if you could read through a freshly posted post and tell me if you found errors. That way I can edit them before they are burned into the blockchain. Are you on discord? If yes I could tell you there when a new post is out.
Hahaha ^^ totally got your point there, I am just the same :-D
Sure, let's do it that way.
You can find me on discord under
WAMP#5190
Looking forward to your next post!
hab dich auf discord als freund geadded. Hab einen neuen post draussen, und der ist superlang, d.h. da sind trotz korrektur sicher ein paar fehler drin geblieben.
Danke ;-)
Okay, habe dich gefunden. Allerdings bringt Discord diese Fehlermeldung:
Da ich Discord noch kaum kenne, habe ich keine Ahnung welche der genannten Fehler vorliegen könnten. Kannst Du Dir darauf einen Reim machen?
trete mal einem der channels bei, dann sollte das problem sich erledigen:
die deutschsprachigene Steemit-Community: https://discord.gg/9zFuQQ
Steemstem: https://discord.gg/E2rytD