Scientists Discover Cure For Cancer But Big Pharma Ignores Them....

[Anonymous]

Yeah yeah and you are just a figment of my imagination...zzzzzzzzz

Ok, let me reiterate that for you, this time without being snarky.

How can you put trust in Snopes? How do you know you're not being lied to? And to prevent you from focusing on the wrong thing, I'll grant you that Snopes can be useful & may have started with/still have good intentions behind it.

But how can you know for sure?

You're basically falling prey to the "It's on the XXXXXX so it MUST be true!"

Cheers! :bottle:

[Seshmeister]

It's not that black and white or cut and dry. In the US we have had publicly funded healthcare for years. It's called county hospitals. Our healthcare system worked fine for decades until the last 25 years when the prices shot up sky high. Honestly. Do you think turning the system over to a government bought off by the insurance and pharmaceutical industry is going to make anything any better? Naw. The US Federal Government is completely corrupt and the only way to fix healthcare is to make it more local. About all the federal government is good for is robbery, wasting money, and starting wars. Not exactly the type of gangsters you want running your local hospital.

You should do it at state level. Federal is probably too big to manage anyway, just have a centralised standards agency to minimise health tourism between states.

[Seshmeister]

Ok, let me reiterate that for you, this time without being snarky.

How can you put trust in Snopes? How do you know you're not being lied to? And to prevent you from focusing on the wrong thing, I'll grant you that Snopes can be useful & may have started with/still have good intentions behind it.

But how can you know for sure?

You're basically falling prey to the "It's on the XXXXXX so it MUST be true!"

Cheers! :bottle:

It's pointless to get into a discussion with you on that basis.

Snopes may be unreliable(although I haven't noticed) but the source of the thread in their own 'About Us' section is implausible. I also explained in general terms why it was bullshit and also posted an article by a very notable scientific skeptic whose work I know well and who is a well qualified respected doctor.

As I said if the extent of your argument is 'How do you know snopes isn't lying?' when you obviously haven't read the sources snopes based their article on or all the rest of information I've posted here or spent a few seconds even thinking then stop wasting everyones time.

This just proves again to me that it is incredibly important that people are taught in schools how to tell what is true, what could be true and what definitely isn't based on empirical evidence and logic. The internet, a bunch of fucking idiots combined with some hucksters and conmen have really made that a skill that people need nowadays so they can make rational decisions.

[Anonymous]

Have it your way, but I think that believing in absolute truths, no matter how reliable the sources may be, is a bit dangerous.

That's how religions get started, for one.

I'm not saying you shouldn't believe in anything, by the way.

And furthermore, your concept of teaching people how to tell what's true or not is highly exploitable & therefore dangerous. Just think about it for a second.

As for me wasting everyone's time, I wasn't referring to the reliability of Snopes in this particular issue. Just generally.

Cheers! :bottle:

[Nickdfresh]

Hey everyone, did you hear about the 70-mpg carburetor big-oil is hiding from us in order to keep their profits plump?


Yeah, that's all exaggerated bullshit too....