They said that with a straight face yet carry a device in their pocket and probably their wrist that is capable of tracking and recording everything they do... I've long championed for better mental health programs in this country for many reasons, this doesn't touch the tip of the iceberg in regards to that.
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News 20% of Americans believe microchips are inside COVID-19 vaccines
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GodisanAtheist
Diamond Member
-Well that explains why I got the shot and it was like "RTX On"
Captante
Lifer
Now that you mention it since my second shot I have noticed more detail in my lighting!
GodisanAtheist
Diamond Member
-Yeah, and I thought the Covid shot was supposed to be free but the fuckers charged me $3000 for it, something about a mark-up over MSRP...
pcgeek11
Lifer
Because
1.) Internet Poll.
2.) People love to Troll these polls.
3.) I don't think that many people are that stupid.
BurnItDwn
Lifer
What kind of microchips are they supposedly using?
Most vaccines use something like 22-25 gauge needles ... thats like .3-.4mm at the biggest.
Im sure some RFID chips are that size (like what we can put in our pets), but, anything with a radio/transmitter is likely going to be physically impossible to fit into a syringe.
Besides, cell phones are MUCH better for tracking people since they can record sound and video and have GPS. The government already uses mobile phones to track people, what is the purpose of trying to implant a chip?
Most vaccines use something like 22-25 gauge needles ... thats like .3-.4mm at the biggest.
Im sure some RFID chips are that size (like what we can put in our pets), but, anything with a radio/transmitter is likely going to be physically impossible to fit into a syringe.
Besides, cell phones are MUCH better for tracking people since they can record sound and video and have GPS. The government already uses mobile phones to track people, what is the purpose of trying to implant a chip?
[DHT]Osiris
Lifer
Citation?
And really? You think people are really smarter than that? Let's find a few comparison examples for specifically the moon landing, just to use as a tuning fork for this specific poll. Remember, we're looking for somewhere around 12%.
Conspiracy theories in U.S.- belief that the moon landing was faked 2019| Statista
During a 2019 survey, respondents in the U.S.
www.statista.com
2013, 7% believe.
Vocal Minority Insists It Was All Smoke and Mirrors (Published 2009)
Forty years after men first touched the lifeless dirt of the Moon, polling consistently suggests that some 6 percent of Americans believe the landings were faked.
My Seventh Grade Science Teacher Showed Us a Moon Landing Hoax TV Special
Fox actually bragged that the show increased skepticism in the moon landing to 20 percent in the U.S.
4.1 How many people believe these theories?
Between 1995 and 2013, the percentage of American adults who believe that the Moon landings were faked in some way has remained stable aroun...
www.moonhoaxdebunked.com
So basically, from the time we started polling such nonsense until around 2013, it was consistently 6-7%, with a fairly large percentage that 'had no opinion' if given the option (which is absurd). After that, the conspiracy engine of the internet was able to take over, and morons are easy marks for such things. I'm sure the percentages of believers of all major conspiracy theories is up.
Citation?
And really? You think people are really smarter than that? Let's find a few comparison examples for specifically the moon landing, just to use as a tuning fork for this specific poll. Remember, we're looking for somewhere around 12%.
2019, 11% believe, 11% use the option of 'neither strongly agree or disagree' (that choice wasn't available in the one here)Conspiracy theories in U.S.- belief that the moon landing was faked 2019| Statista
During a 2019 survey, respondents in the U.S.
2013, 7% believe.
2009, 6% believe.Vocal Minority Insists It Was All Smoke and Mirrors (Published 2009)
Forty years after men first touched the lifeless dirt of the Moon, polling consistently suggests that some 6 percent of Americans believe the landings were faked.www.nytimes.com
Apparently in 1999, around 11%... after Fox aired a conspiracy theory 'documentary', it jumped briefly to 20%... glad to see they were in the misinformation game so tightly back then too. Shitfucks.My Seventh Grade Science Teacher Showed Us a Moon Landing Hoax TV Special
Fox actually bragged that the show increased skepticism in the moon landing to 20 percent in the U.S.slate.com
1995, 6% believe, 11% no opinion.4.1 How many people believe these theories?
Between 1995 and 2013, the percentage of American adults who believe that the Moon landings were faked in some way has remained stable aroun...
So basically, from the time we started polling such nonsense until around 2013, it was consistently 6-7%, with a fairly large percentage that 'had no opinion' if given the option (which is absurd). After that, the conspiracy engine of the internet was able to take over, and morons are easy marks for such things. I'm sure the percentages of believers of all major conspiracy theories is up.
Again, though, you can never tell with polls whether people are being sincere in their answers, because nothing is really at stake for them. Maybe a lot of people are crazy or dumb (the Capitol assault, and the last couple of elections, seems to confirm that at least some are, because those involved real stakes and real concequences) but I don't think one can assume everyone answering those sorts of polls truly believes the box they tick.
[DHT]Osiris
Lifer
Pohemi
Lifer
It's for the poors that don't sign up for "Obamaphones"...gotta keep an eye on them, too!
People have all sorts of reasons to lie in such things - a sense of mischief, or a desire to amuse themselves (which we'd now call 'trolling' I guess) being one.
I don't know that I'd lie in a political-type opinion poll, but it's sometimes occurred to me that if I ever end up taking part in a social-pscyhology experiment I'll deliberately give answers and choose behaviours that screw with their experiment (because I don't like psychology as an academic discipline, I think it has dismally-low standards and gets used for ideological purposes - one thing that strikes me as an obvious weakness in many such experiments I've heard about, is that the stakes for the participants are always so low...the 'rewards' involved in things like testing how co-operative or selfish or altruisitc people are are always very small, so for me they would be outweighed by the 'reward' of getting to screw with psychologists).
[DHT]Osiris
Lifer
Then you'd be noise on the final tally, which is expected and accounted for with error bars. It also barely moves the needle, as most people aren't quite so sociopathic regarding other peoples' work.
Sure, it's not as precise as math, but neither is the human brain. The science is fuzzy because the subject is fuzzy, but that doesn't make the results wrong.
Nah, it's dismal. As an academic discipline it has a startlingly high incidence of outright academic fraud, and its track record for reproducability is poor. It's built on very questionable philosophical foundations, in my opinion. I'd scrap it entirely as a discipline until we are able to do it properly. As things stand its largely driven by ideology.
So...you've never been to Walmart?!
nakedfrog
No Lifer
IDK, I've known some heavy metal fans that could probably legitimately consider it their religion.I mean, it seems similar to the way it may not in fact be true that the Jedi religion went into a serious decline between 2001 and 2011.
Census 2011 data on religion reveals Jedi Knights are in decline
Pagans rank highly with 56,620 adherents, but high-profile Scientology is followed by only 2,418, and 14m have no religionwww.theguardian.com
I mean, there were a couple of poor Star Wars movies that came out during that time period (the 'prequels', I think), but is it really likely such a major world faith could decline so dramatically in just ten years? Seems implausible.
Also...
People don't always tell the truth in opinion polls and surveys, I think.
nakedfrog
No Lifer
You're evidence in favor of point #3, though 😛
I've been writing user-facing software long enough to believe in the power of human stupidity.
Captante
Lifer
You underestimate this factor at your peril .... it is truly boundless. 😕
I can certainly see the attraction! 😀
Red Squirrel
No Lifer
The way that entrance curves upwards is definitely sexy. It's just asking for it!
dullard
Elite Member
If you've been writing software, then you know that few (if any) users could possibly get to step #3 in any conceivable list without screwing something up.
Torn Mind
Lifer
Ah, you have just exposed your own intellectual mortality. 😉You underestimate this factor at your peril .... it is truly boundless. 😕
I can certainly see the attraction! 😀
Swedish Man Dies After Having Sex with Hornet's Nest
A Swedish man died after having sex with hornet's nest?
www.snopes.com
Hoax.
Captante
Lifer
Ah, you have just exposed your own intellectual mortality. 😉
Swedish Man Dies After Having Sex with Hornet's Nest
A Swedish man died after having sex with hornet's nest?
Hoax.
The fact that you had to check however sorta proves my point. (also its a very good idea to check out anything that anyone tells you)
Would you even have been more than mildly surprised had it turned out to be real though? Be honest!
😛
Torn Mind
Lifer
It seems a bit farfetched and it would take the willpower of a prisoner of war to actually get hard while the stings start before it could ever be put in the hole.
I never saw, but I think a bee or wasp got me once but I didn't see it. The piercing pain is hard hitting.
Captante
Lifer
I WOULD imagine it takes some serious willpower to "maintain" your manliness with a dozen hornets digging in!
😛 😱
*(I suspect I'd be running and screaming!)
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