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The Fishcake🐶🐾 | 1 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 No doubt, I am talking of the big ones here, e.g., climate change, moon landing, etc
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phil | 1 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Even climate change is an interesting one. While I don’t completely deny that it is a real thing, I think there are still certain aspects that aren’t as well understood as they could be, and there are a lot of deliberately alarmist predictions that won’t come true but make for good stories for the media to publish. Also I think some of the government policies supposedly for “climate change” are in part being driven by other agendas as well.
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The Fishcake🐶🐾 | 1 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 I am not talking about the media, they make headlines sexy to attract readers. 🫡
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phil | 1 days ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +2 
 Of course, but some sort of media is where most people get their information from. So you either end up with people following the mainstream narrative and thinking we are all going to die by 2030 if they don’t go out now and buy an electric car or those who have seen something on alternative media or an influencer on X and they think it is all a hoax and we need to burn more coal for cheaper power. There is very little balanced discussion about it and most people aren’t going to go back to read scientific publications, consider new information and think logically..