exponential63 replied to your link “Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science?”omg. My parents…
exponential63 replied to your link “Why Do Many Reasonable People Doubt Science?”
omg. My parents were part of a UK anti-fluoridation campaign before I was born. (They *weren’t* anti-science, but they *did* believe it was sinister mass medication.) And by the date of Dr Strangelove, Kubrick had settled not that far away… :O
So it’s possible, maybe even likely, that your parents were directly involved in events that inspired Ripper’s character. That’s really cool.
An interesting aspect of people who believe “anti-science” positions is that they typically aren’t “anti-science” in an across-the-board sense. Instead they selectively interpret things to allow them to believe that science actually does (or would) support their position, but that some force external to the proper conduct of science (ideology, politics, self-interested dishonesty on someone’s part) is preventing that.
I’m curious: Did your parents ever revise their views about fluoridation? Or did it just fade away as an issue for them? If they’re still around, what do you think they’d say today if you asked them about it?
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