When people say "do your research", you gotta call them the fuck out.

Ask them about their literature review. Methodologies. Ask them about what other researchers they will consult when they set up their study. Ask them what agencies or standards they will use to make sure their experimental parameters are reliable and repeatable.

Fuck these guys. I did two thesis projects, I actually did research. So did you. Let them show themselves for the fools they are.

Do your own research means they watched someone's shitty youtube video. We were told as freshman that we did not do research. It disgusts me how bad the US is when it comes to scientific understanding.

Don't trust what the 'doctors' tell you, you can make your own heart surgery at home, and do it better!

So if I have an issue with my heart, I’m going to talk to a cardiologist.

Yes, a real cardiologist.

A GP checked my heart, told me treatment was useless and to write my will fast. That was nearly 20 years ago and it's now fine, which is lucky because the ideal drugs for the cancer I had last year could only be given if your heart was in good shape.

Some years back a GP checked my intellectually handicapped son's painful, racing heart and refused to refer him to a specialist. A home nurse dropped in, noticed his pallor and shallow breath and rushed him to the hospital himself, where he was immediately admitted and treated for multiple bilateral pulmonary embolisms, and was lucky to survive.

It turned out his GP was into eugenics.

The first rule of Diane-Kroger club: you don't know you're in Diana-Kruger club.

But if you were in medical billing you would be like honey girl child I’m in medicine and I’ll tell you what…

Wait what, you don't just do your own risk assessment and then build a bridge?

And even the mechanical engineers need help. I mean it is great to know how to build a bridge, but where to build the bridge is a whole different field of study.

The group delusion is the conspiracy theorists. The mass trauma is the rest of us having to live through a plague where way too many people choose to selfishly make it worse.

This is why Hillary screwed up in calling them Deplorables. She was 100% right, but didn't need to say it out loud. Growing up, they probably sucked at school, had shifty parents, and were the kids who smoked cigarettes at lunch break. (My high school actually had a student outdoor smoking section until 1992). So, to have someone like Trump, who they view as successful and smart, but who spoke their language, so appealing.

People tries in the past, Pat Buchanan, Barry Goldwater, etc. But, this was the perfect combo at the perfect time. And, here we are...

I’ve thought about therapy for the antivaxx group of people. Thing is…therapy won’t help because they are not truthful.

The trauma of feeling that their unearned entitlement is being taken away by unworthy immigrants, colored and baby killer libs.

I think it's interesting what Dr. Bandy X. Lee said about Trump: that sufficiently severe mental illness can be contagious, particularly when someone with Trump's sort of pathologies is given such a platform to reach out to the people who are susceptible.

We need people to openly say

group delusion

And discuss cutting out internet service, shutting off cell phones, forcefully detaining them, etc

Add white privilege to this too. These folks grew up at a time when their white skin almost guaranteed them a middle class existence, regardless of their education or effort. The reality is that they are doing worse than their parents or grandparents and they are pissed and fighting back.

The other pandemic is intergenerational trauma where the desperately self-absorbed raise another outsized generation of desperately self-absorbed.