The pervading compulsive sycophancy around the platform is really off-putting.
Speaking about whales flagging minnows, because they post information which does not fit their lifestyle agenda.
For example. jamesc downvoted this nelu.ceban's post, because this minnow posted some scientific information about vaccines which does not fit his attachment to anti-vaxxer tinfoil beliefs.
He did not even leave any comment with some valid argument to engage in debate. Just "click" on flag...
jamesc is one of the whales who persistently upvotes all sort of pseudoscience posts and whacko conspiracy theories like anti-vaxxer or chemtrail posts. Anti-vaxxer canadian-coconut is his favorite. This coco-nutter earns hunderds of SBD each week purely thanks to upvotes from jamesc.
jamesc incentivizes pseudoscience and bullhit being spread around Steemit, while we, minnows at SteemSTEM trying to bring science to the platform.
absurd! Vaccines are one of the reasons we're alive without polio! There's one vaccine that is excessive that my daughter will not be getting: HPV. But everything else, she's had. There were no side effects or anything bad coming from them. Flagging content a whale doesn't like is retarded. There goes my respect for jamesc. Gone! Poof!
We know that about vaccines but trying to explain science and facts to anti-vaxxers is just wasting one's breath.
It is like talking to deeply religious people. Like I tend to say, there is no point in trying to explain science and evidence to someone who does not value science or values their personal beliefs more than science.
It's also not either or. Sometimes people like me get hammered by people that think you have to be anti-vaccine or pro-vaccine. They don't bother to consider there are people like me that believe in vaccines, but believe they should be tested more thoroughly and given strong safety requirements. With how fast some of them are pumped out it is clear this is not the case. One of my children did have a negative reaction to the Pertussis vaccine in the DPT vaccine. The rest of his life he received the D and T vaccines via a different route, but still got them. Not all issues are BLACK and WHITE, and US against THEM. I think sometimes people forget that there are more than two choices. I support vaccines, but I believe they need to be carefully scrutinized and not rushed out the door if big pharma lobbys someone. Also don't force people to take a vaccine that is likely to be worthless to them.
In reality I am not anti-vaccine, but I am an anarchist. I am a voluntaryist. I do not support using FORCE to make people do anything, that would also apply to vaccines. I like the saying "Good ideas don't require force." If things were more OPEN and TRANSPARENT and there was not corruption as so many levels within government I believe this would be mostly a non-issue.
@jamesc did actually leave a comment to justify his downflag and when I last saw this thread the OP was ignoring valid questions. This has been heavily edited since.
Yup. That'ws wht I meant moreless.
The pervading compulsive sycophancy around the platform is really off-putting.
Speaking about whales flagging minnows, because they post information which does not fit their lifestyle agenda.
For example. jamesc downvoted this nelu.ceban's post, because this minnow posted some scientific information about vaccines which does not fit his attachment to anti-vaxxer tinfoil beliefs.
https://steemit.com/medicine/@nelu.ceban/vaccination-immunization-can-save-lifes#@nelu.ceban/re-logic-re-teamsteem-re-neluceban-vaccination-immunization-can-save-lifes-20161011t183625287z
He did not even leave any comment with some valid argument to engage in debate. Just "click" on flag...
jamesc is one of the whales who persistently upvotes all sort of pseudoscience posts and whacko conspiracy theories like anti-vaxxer or chemtrail posts. Anti-vaxxer canadian-coconut is his favorite. This coco-nutter earns hunderds of SBD each week purely thanks to upvotes from jamesc.
jamesc incentivizes pseudoscience and bullhit being spread around Steemit, while we, minnows at SteemSTEM trying to bring science to the platform.
absurd! Vaccines are one of the reasons we're alive without polio! There's one vaccine that is excessive that my daughter will not be getting: HPV. But everything else, she's had. There were no side effects or anything bad coming from them. Flagging content a whale doesn't like is retarded. There goes my respect for jamesc. Gone! Poof!
We know that about vaccines but trying to explain science and facts to anti-vaxxers is just wasting one's breath.
It is like talking to deeply religious people. Like I tend to say, there is no point in trying to explain science and evidence to someone who does not value science or values their personal beliefs more than science.
It's also not either or. Sometimes people like me get hammered by people that think you have to be anti-vaccine or pro-vaccine. They don't bother to consider there are people like me that believe in vaccines, but believe they should be tested more thoroughly and given strong safety requirements. With how fast some of them are pumped out it is clear this is not the case. One of my children did have a negative reaction to the Pertussis vaccine in the DPT vaccine. The rest of his life he received the D and T vaccines via a different route, but still got them. Not all issues are BLACK and WHITE, and US against THEM. I think sometimes people forget that there are more than two choices. I support vaccines, but I believe they need to be carefully scrutinized and not rushed out the door if big pharma lobbys someone. Also don't force people to take a vaccine that is likely to be worthless to them.
In reality I am not anti-vaccine, but I am an anarchist. I am a voluntaryist. I do not support using FORCE to make people do anything, that would also apply to vaccines. I like the saying "Good ideas don't require force." If things were more OPEN and TRANSPARENT and there was not corruption as so many levels within government I believe this would be mostly a non-issue.
@jamesc did actually leave a comment to justify his downflag and when I last saw this thread the OP was ignoring valid questions. This has been heavily edited since.