Imagine if you ran Facebook and you knew that people were using it to spread misinformation and that that in turn led to harm or death coming to people. Would you not want to stop it?

It’s “not his fault” for anything bad, but he sure takes credit for good things he had nothing to do with.  The problem is there is a significant chunk of the population that believe that moron.

Oh, honey, you know he’s an InfoWars devotee.

>My theory is that a lot of people are scared by the idea that a
>virus this bad could just come out of nature and that it would only
>take a couple people bad at their jobs to make it momumentally worse

Bingpot. We tell ourselves many fictions to soothe the sheer existential panic that would engulf every living human if…

soooo, katrina was all your meteorology prof’s fault!

Impartial and unbiased aren’t the same thing, though. Nobody is unbiased, because we are all human and we all have beliefs that affect our opinions and our view of the world. However, you CAN be impartial, as long as you are willing and able to recognize and acknowledge your bias, because then you can compensate.

Anti-vax nutters go all the way back to 1808.

It seems to slowly be moving in the right direction. I used to encounter the dangerous and ignorant “I will never vaccinate my family” people often. Now it is more “I will do it, but on a delayed schedule”. Still just as uninformed and dangerous. But at least they are giving the vaccines. So I see that as slow…

Did they really use a closing shot of Fauci predicting a pandemic to imply that he started it?

The bit about her own lab not being able to replicate made me chuckle a bit.

Shkreli’s not BigPharma. BigPharma has plenty of bullshit to answer for, but they also provide an invaluable service, unlike vulture speculators like Shkreli.

The profitability of big pharma throws shade on your assumption that they’re charging high prices “just to get by.” They even get funding from the federal government. They’re doing fine.

it’s “debatable” whether vaccines save lives

Haven’t you shilled here before under a similar name?

In itstartswithme’s case, probably Breitbart. Or the Daily Stormer.

I wasn’t going to respond an ungray you, but since somebody else did...

But then there’s this beauty:

First learn to use quotations properly, second we can tell you are the person who has liked your own comment, and third go back to the bridge you crawled out from under. This isn’t about left or right you fucking tool it is about peoples lives.

Her book is published in partnership with Children’s Health Defense, an organization led by Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.

Any conversation is going to depend on who you’re talking to and what matters to them. Ask questions before you start telling them things.