🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

@cobratbq Its true, at least in this climate specifically... everyone feels if something is important they are duty bound to be biased in the extreme. Not always in ways that are blatant lies.. but more like "Im going to provide you all the legtimate evidence that supports my opinion and conveniently leave out any of the counter-points". It is most often lies of omission, but they are very damning to the credibility of a source.

Take vaccines, I think we all know vaccines are good and safe overall, and that anti-vaxers were on the rise and concerning... Me being in the COVID field saw daily people overexagerating or lying in both directions out of fear trying to counter the anti-vaxx rhetoric... but with such an unbalanced presentation I think they did more harm to create anti-vaxxers than to push back.

So apparently after this guy posted some screen shots of me posting the attached he rage quit, said he was deleting his account, and well, did.. at least after he messaged me with some threats and I blocked him...

I have to say, that doesnt make me happy. I really would have rather him just act like a mature adult, he could have just walked away more politely, or just moved on.. in fact a simple "Im sorry" would have been enough for me to let bigons be bigons....

While his attitude suggests him leaving is better for the fediverse, frankly its not what I'd call a win, anytime someone is this immature no one wins.

@cobratbq

Even among scientists we dont have all the answers...we have mostly **educated** opinions. But there is a lot of room for error there too. When people act like this dude, yea all it does it muddy the water and hurt everyone... but once you filter out the noise you get enough information to form your own educated opinion... But yea.. it can be hard, especially if your a layperson in a topic who wanted to rely on science.

@dashrandom HAHAHAH LARPing... yup pretty much... And while I am a research scientist I never claimed I worked in a field related to climate change, but I do work int he field of biology. I guess he just felt he had to lie to feel "superior" or something, which is funny because until he started with the personal attacks I had no need to even mention what I did and was fine to just have a friendly discussion about the topic as equals... but nooooooo

@cobratbq

Its amazing the delusions these people come up with... "climate denier"... "right wing"... literally everyone of my comments suggested the opposite. It would be amusing if it wasnt so pathetic.

@AncientGood

@cobratbq

This thread:
https://mastodon.online/@digital_wyrm/110698564541929924

Which lead him to make two more posts stating:

"Huh, I got my first right-wing #climatechange denier that was a hater today. I feel like I got my tusk, lol"

and

"Omg I don't see how other scientists debate online. It makes me want to pull my hair out."

LOL "other scientists"... dude was a moron and no scientist but i was too polite to point that out. Plus to assume I am right wing because I politely pointed out there were still some plants left is really hilarious. The only person who was a "hater" in that thread was him....boy o boy