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My uncle told me 5G towers cause bird deaths so I pulled up the actual study on my phone at Thanksgiving
He pointed at a grainy YouTube video and I showed him the peer-reviewed data from 3 countries that found zero correlation, and he just said "well they're all lying" and walked away, has anyone else had a family member just refuse to look at a single source?
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garcia.casey3d agoMost Upvoted
it's like once someone decides something is true, evidence just doesnt matter anymore.
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walker.robert3d ago
Jumping off what you said, there's a difference between stubbornness and just not having the right evidence yet. For example, people used to think the Earth was flat because that's what their eyes told them, but once we had photos from space and ships sailing around the world, most folks changed their mind. The tricky part is when someone's 'evidence' is a YouTube video or something they heard from a friend, which feels just as real to them as a study would be to you. So it's not that evidence doesn't matter, it's that what counts as 'good evidence' is different for everyone, and once a belief gets tied up in how you see yourself or your group, piling on more facts rarely helps.
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