There recently was the news of plastic recycling not being plausible and people were surprised.

I myself met so many men having sex with men who don't know what PreP is, who kept fearing HIV when they could've gotten supply for months for 10 euros.

What is an important thing you think people don't know or are misinformed about you wish more knew about?

  • rootsbreadandmakka [he/him]
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    5 个月前

    I think similar to the recycling post, another post that got a lot of traction recently was the article about oats and products with oats containing pesticide residues that are going to give you reproductive issues. However the “story” was pretty much just a press release by the environmental working group, which is not really a great source. Not really the people you want to be relying on for your claims.

    Similarly, I was recently talking with a friend, and they brought up the Stanley cups lead controversy. I was completely in the dark, didn’t even know what he was talking about, so he sends me an article, and first thing I notice is Tamara Rubin’s name everywhere. There’s another source that makes me raise my eyebrows a bit. Similar to ewg, she is extremely extremely hyperbolic, and tends to push a lot of junk science. I would start reading extremely critically if you see either of these sources. Who else is making the claims (if anyone) etc.

    • redtea@lemmygrad.ml
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      5 个月前

      I'm always impressed when people can spot bullshit by identifying the author. I see the same thing with political articles and the replies will be like, 'they worked with so and so on the kill all the poors project, you can't trust them'.

      I can do the same with ideas, but I'm woefully bad at keeping up with the who's who because I tend not to read or watch reactionary media for lack of time and patience. But sometimes there reactionaries pop up where I don't expect them. Like in your two examples. I'm caught a bit unawares.

      Would be handy to have a list of all the vox pops, etc, to be cautious of. Not that people can't change. And there's the thing about broken clocks. But it helps to know the red flags. Like a communist credit agency but for reactionary takes.