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Is Your Problem Misinformation, or a Lack of Discernment
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There’s a lot of weird stuff out there. My mom has bought 11 kinds of probiotics this year. I’m only sort of exaggerating. She says “this one helps you lose weight,” which is a fun coincidence because so did every other one.
Dr. Gundry said so this time.
I’ve begged my mom to stop forwarding forwards and opening suspicious emails, but she just won’t. So I’ll take the next best thing — a clear understanding that she should not give her bank number to anyone, even if it’s me in an emergency email where I’ve let her know I’m stranded in Canada.
Not to self, don’t get stranded in Canada or you’re fucked.
Anyways, at 75 years old, my mom is among millions of people who struggle with the internet. It has taken years to help convince my mother just how much of what she reads and watched does not count as scholarly information.
We were debating about some very basic issue last year — something no logical person would dispute. She said she’d heard this thing from the news. I asked her if it was Fox News; Shade intended.
But in truth, there is no news source that is completely infallible! There are, however, best practices to help you understand if you’re relying on good sources or idiotic ones.
What’s a great way to start making sense of the world with the help of the internet? Know which sites offer (generally) scholarly info. If I’m interested in current events being reported in a logical way, I feel pretty safe engaging with Washington Post, NYTimes, or LA Times. I feel less safe reporting on things from certain other sites, even if they’re popular. Sure, it’s okay to read them, but why not do a quick google check to make sure that the POV you’re working with is not…how should I say this, complete and utter BS.
“The news said Covid is getting way worse in LA,” my mom has said a few times recently. The weird truth is, this is actually reported by legitimate sources. And it’s not to say there is no truth hidden in that statement, but if you’re following the joureny of Los Angeles, we’re doing the best we’ve done in almost an entire year. Yes, two weeks ago we had slightly lower numbers, but it’s also logical to assume we’d have an uptick in Covid cases after recent changes to the mask mandates. Several weeks ago we had thousands of cases, and now we’re mostly in the hundreds. Now we’re going to talk about how bad we’re doing? I call shenanigans.
It’s easy to make all sorts of speculations though, even from a scholarly article. So, how about this — let’s take the news with a grain of salt.This also goes for books, and I do mean all of them.
“Well, my medical textbook said steroids are perfectly safe,” Dr. Buttface might say. Because it’s quite clear, most doctors will happily write scripts for steroid creams, especially for those with skin issues.
I happen to have spent major spurts of the last decade recovering from a little-known reaction to steroids that has probably plagued hundreds of thousands of people — I can only really speak to what I’ve learned from the facebook group with a devoted 30,000 people, many of whom have commiserated over dreadful looking photos of our temporarilly ruined-skin. There’s a lot of talk from people whose doctors dismiss this condition, some of whom threaten parents of children who will no longer put steroids on them.
Honestly, everyone should have a traumatic experience in their life where they experience the fact that ANYONE can be wrong — The head a company, a doctor, your dad, the person in charge of knowing which limb you’re having removed, and even Fauci, reigning leader of the ouchie.
There are things that are wrong across the board, wrong for some people, more nuanced than we understand, or just plain made-the-fuck-up.
And how do we know the difference?
Please read this carefully.
WE DON’T. We don’t always know the difference. We don’t definitely know the difference.
So what do we do? We act with discernment. We judge carefully. We ask questions, read books and articles. Talk to people in similar situations. Trust our gut. Enter situations carefully. Read the contract. Read the fine print.
Some thing, of course, are not wrong based on “facts” and “data” but they have issues based on morality or what’s best for the common good. How do we determine that? The same way.
This a skill set severely lacking in this world.
And you know what I think when people complain that they read incorrect info on the internet? I think, first, get ahold of yourself.
Then I think of them like a little baby Neo in The Matrix realizing they were the one who had failed to see the world for all it was.
Yes, friends. Most of what you’ll hear in life is wrong. Welcome to the rest of your life.
Unfortunately, people are incredibly ill-equipped to deal with this incredibly important life skill. I mean, how else would you explain the Tide-Pod challenge?

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