HLMenckenFan@lemmy.worldM to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoThere's no such thing as a conservative intellectual — only apologists for right-wing powerwww.salon.comexternal-linkmessage-square79fedilinkarrow-up17arrow-down11cross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
arrow-up16arrow-down1external-linkThere's no such thing as a conservative intellectual — only apologists for right-wing powerwww.salon.comHLMenckenFan@lemmy.worldM to politics @lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square79fedilinkcross-posted to: politics@lemmy.world
minus-squareBlamemeta@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·1 year agoThe post is absurdly hateful, to the point you wonder if the poster actually thinks this way.
minus-squareRaltoid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·edit-21 year agoYou are aware that scientific studies have shown a clear correlation between conservative thinking and lower cognitive ability?
minus-squareBlamemeta@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·1 year agoYou can make studies say anything you want. just throw the lab some money. The tobacco studies are a great example of thst.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down1·1 year agoWhich tobacco studies?
minus-squareBlamemeta@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1arrow-down2·1 year agoFirst article on google, https://news.sky.com/story/remember-when-cigarettes-were-good-for-you-10371944 Lots of shit in the 40s and 50s claiming tobacco was good for you. All those studies were funded by tobacco companies.
minus-squareFlying Squid@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·1 year agoThere’s nothing there about any studies claiming tobacco was good for you. Just finding doctors to say so.
minus-squaresadreality@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up1arrow-down3·1 year agoTobacco industry pkay book is used by big oil, sugar, bad food in general and now tech. Deny until you can’t. Fund fake studies to help your denial arguments. Talk about choice and freedom. Fear monger.
minus-squareBlamemeta@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down2·1 year agoHere’s a history.com article. Maybe that’ll be more to you’re liking? https://www.history.com/news/cigarette-ads-doctors-smoking-endorsement
minus-squareSTUPIDVIPGUY@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoThen try finding a single study that says the opposite.
minus-squareRhoeri@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoIt’s hateful? How exactly?
minus-squaretjhart85@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoWell I hated it! --Michael Scott Is basically what all the arguments I’ve seen boil down to
minus-squareg0nz0li0@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoIs it hateful, or just critical?
minus-squareRyumast3r@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoHow’s it hateful? At least in a way that modern right wing ideology isn’t?
minus-squareastro_smurf@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0arrow-down1·1 year agoah, there’s the victimhood the article spoke of
The post is absurdly hateful, to the point you wonder if the poster actually thinks this way.
You are aware that scientific studies have shown a clear correlation between conservative thinking and lower cognitive ability?
You can make studies say anything you want. just throw the lab some money. The tobacco studies are a great example of thst.
Which tobacco studies?
First article on google, https://news.sky.com/story/remember-when-cigarettes-were-good-for-you-10371944
Lots of shit in the 40s and 50s claiming tobacco was good for you. All those studies were funded by tobacco companies.
There’s nothing there about any studies claiming tobacco was good for you. Just finding doctors to say so.
Tobacco industry pkay book is used by big oil, sugar, bad food in general and now tech.
Deny until you can’t. Fund fake studies to help your denial arguments. Talk about choice and freedom. Fear monger.
Here’s a history.com article. Maybe that’ll be more to you’re liking? https://www.history.com/news/cigarette-ads-doctors-smoking-endorsement
Then try finding a single study that says the opposite.
It’s hateful? How exactly?
Well I hated it!
--Michael Scott
Is basically what all the arguments I’ve seen boil down to
Is it hateful, or just critical?
Just hateful.
How’s it hateful? At least in a way that modern right wing ideology isn’t?
ah, there’s the victimhood the article spoke of