As WordPress continues to recycle old prompts, I pulled another prompt from The Coffee Monsterz Co to respond to today
What is a misconception many people have that drives you crazy?
Where do I begin with this one? There are a lot of misconceptions people have that drive me crazy. I don’t prescribe the most conspiracy theories. Yes, it’s true that there are some events that coincide, a topic I wrote about here“ that seemed to give some credence to conspiracy theories, but buying large most of them just don’t hold enough water for me to believe them.
I’m absolutely dumbfounded that there are people still walking around this country who think that Donald Trump actually won the 2020 presidential election. I’m kind of surprised to hear the president still talking about it from time to time. It was 4 1/2 years ago. It’s over. It’s time to move on. Trump tried to appeal the election results through the court system in multiple states. Every single one of those cases was either dismissed or ruled against him.
I’m likewise amazed that there are still people walking around this country, or perhaps around this world, that believe that the moon landings were actually filmed on a Hollywood soundstage. Over the years I’ve heard stories about some of the former Apollo astronauts getting heckled by people on the streets and getting into fist fights with them over it.
At the moment, I’m absolutely furious about the things that our current secretary of health and human services, one Robert F Kennedy Junior, is saying about people on the autism spectrum disorder. Clearly he doesn’t know anyone who has autism. Clearly he has no idea what people on the spectrum are capable of achieving. And to hear that he wants to create a national registry of people diagnosed with autism is absolutely frightening. I don’t think it will actually happen. I think the courts will Shoot this insane notion of his down quickly. But I think that there are even people in America, who think like this is just sickening.
Along those same lines, I find it hard to fathom that some people still believe that vaccines cause autism. The Doctor who originally postulated that theory has since taken it back. Furthermore, he has publicly stated that he regrets of even going public with that theory. the truth is, unfortunately bad shit happens sometimes. Sometimes people are born with a disease or disorder, and there really is no rhyme or reason for it.
Unfortunately, this is a problem with the Internet and social media: unbridled, unchecked free speech. As of this past January Meta removed their in-house fact-checkers – who would flag factually incorrect stories, . Some people will believe anything they read on the Internet; just as some people will believe anything they see on television. The Internet is their friend, so they think. Chances are, there’s probably a website or a social media group dedicated to whatever hair brain conspiracy theory that you happen to believe in.
I understand the human need to find reasons for things happening, or even to find scapegoats for that matter. But life really is like the bumper sticker says: shit happens.
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