Another victim of the pop science cosmology to nihilism pipeline. May he realize life has no preordained meaning. No gods, so it's up to us to choose wisely. Not holding my breath.
@RickiTarr and here I am, thinking that "did my research" means at least opening Google scholar to read the abstracts of peer reviewed studies to make sure I'm not projecting my biases...
@RickiTarr@codinghorror Not up-to-date on “Apple in the box” theory, so perhaps I shouldn’t rush to judgement. But Big Crunch? Didn’t this guy get the memo when Perlmutter, Riess, and Schmidt got the Nobel for Dark Energy? scoffs
@RickiTarr this is where you have the answer you want and fit things around this answer. “Things”, because they cannot be called facts and “fit” because of the clear lack of scientific rigor, robust, and clear argumentation with any kind of supporting evidence.
@RickiTarr@lisamelton I think you give the word “research” too much weight. This example has too many words. Instead an example of the latest “research” on my FB feed. 🤦♂️
@RickiTarr@auscandoc@lisamelton Funny thing is i got confused for a moment there, since i'm used to hearing things like "geo-engineering" in the context of ways of fixing climate change. So momentarily it read to me like "you listen to rodents and ignore scientists".
And then i checked the context...
@RickiTarr my god. This guy is a piece of work. Only very loosely related but it reminded me of this entertaining list of the most unusual dissertations. To be clear, though some may question as to why one would research the topic, they're the product of real work, real research. Logan's chickenscratch reminds me of Jon Stewart's blackboard on the old Daily Show when he was spoofing Glenn Beck's conspiracy theory conclusions. https://www.online-phd-programs.org/bizarre-research-paper-topics/
@RickiTarr
I’ve unfortunately lost count of the times I’ve heard “I did my own research” used for what amounts to going down a toxic algorithmically-fueled YouTube black hole of ever-increasing extremism.
I suppose then “peer reviewed” is the number of likes and unhinged echo-chamber comments?
🎓 Here’s to the graduates of Google University. Oh the places you’ll go…
Ack, had the same experience — I once interviewed a prominent flat-earther for a story I was doing back in mid 2020 when COVID was first raging
He said he didn’t believe there really was a pandemic
I asked why
He said, well if it were really a pandemic it’d be like in the movie like Contagion — suddenly, diseased people everywhere! Or like a zombie movie. Suddenly, zombies everywhere. And it’s not like that is it?
@clive Ah yes. Movies as evidence or blueprints or "'announcements of ill-intent by bad actors"
This is a VERY common phenomenon exhibited with almost comical frequency by Alex Jones & those in his orbit
The podcast Knowledge Fight deconstructs Jones' rhetoric & always remarks on the countless instances where he "cites" movies as proof or foreshadowing or speaks of them as if referring to real-life events
This is then integrated into the "reasoning process" of his followers
@clive
To make it just a bit more maddening & surreal...the same people who will "cite" movies as facts & view YouTube-binging as "research" will vehemently question/refute the integrity of peer-reviewed scientific literature.
The cost of conspiracy-driven propaganda outlets & figures cannot be overstated. Not just their content, but perhaps, even more so, how their "modeling" of what counts for "trustworthy" sources is absorbed, integrated & reproduced by the greater public.
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