I'm looking at COVID Anti Vaxx debunking videos, and I'm seeing the same hysteria in the comments about the Anti Vaxxers, as I do on channels I frequent about the Pro COVID Vaxx people.
Hysteria and Youtube comments are almost synonymous, better not to put very much weight on them.
Isn't this a problem? I don't think having foaming at the mouth mobs of people, all wanting to force you get vaccinated is a good idea. I'd just like the facts, and an actual rational and considered ethical/moral discussion on COVID vaccines.
If you really want to have that discussion, i do not think comments are the best place.
And if we know a vaccine works, is tested and found to be safe, wouldn't it be unethical/immoral to not promote it?
I admit, the attempts to promote vaccination, are sometimes a bit cringe-worthy.
Maybe it is time to spread some myths on facebook, some reverse psychology. Why not warn people that one of the unwanted side effects is losing a lot of weight? is that the moral thing to do?
What i am trying to say is that you can always make a lie much simpler than the truth, which is almost always more complicated than we think.
It seems that as one side ramps it up, the other ramps it up, and no-one wins.
If you are after the facts, why then does somebody have to win?
If you really just like the facts, there are a lot of things you can do.
First question you should ask yourself would be: Why should i believe this anonymous blogger/Youtuber/Facebook post etc.
What are the motivations? Are they making money from their anti-Science website, supplements, clicks for advertising, whatever?
Check the sources that are quoted, try some fact checking sites like Snopes.
Look out for cherry picking. Sometimes it is useful to put piece of a paragraph with quote marks at the ends into a google search, and see what comes out. Or you can do an image search too see the original context of pictures that are used.
Beware of people who confuse googling with "doing research". And how can we ever check an argument that throws every counterargument into the conspiracy?