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LadyofShalott's avatar

I used to be an academic, it was my proper job. The oppressive, smothering consensus really kicked in after Blair’s election in 1997 and the subsequent introduction of fees. Academia became a marketplace and progressing your career was wholly dependent on publishing research. Only research that provided the politically correct, desired findings of course. Only academics that read from the regime hymn sheet got the goodies. Many people know this climate stuff is a load of bollocks, but feel constrained from saying so for a myriad of reasons. Back in 2012, I read James Delingpole’s ‘Watermelons - How Environmentalists Are Killing the Planet, Destroying the Economy and Stealing Your Children’s Future’ - that book really says it all. Shame your Irishman never read it.

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Dave's avatar

I've given up trying to reach "true believers". Now I just mock and ridicule them as being played for suckers, that they are going to die sooner than they should have because of the not-vaxx, and be poorer in the process because they gave their money to people that hate them and want them dead.

If someone isn't willing to listen to reason, they need to be roasted with rhetoric. Fear of loss of status/outgrouping is more likely to get them to defect IMO.

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