“Oh no, we wouldn’t want the psychopaths with the broken brains not to exist. That’s eugenics.”

You’re all fucking idiots.

Also, I love how no one gives a shit about the ecological apocalypse. This is why I kept telling you guys: let the hurricanes destroy everything. No more FEMA. Americans clearly don’t care.

For all practical purposes, about 30% of people are unfeeling morons - basically psychopaths. That’s the number that consistently opposes abortion, for instance. Add to that all the dumbasses who don’t know any better (the undecideds on any extremely obvious moral issue), et voila. That’s how you get slavery, nationalism, genocide, theocracy, you name it.

Unless people are willing to screen for psychopathy and remove it from the gene pool, the human species will keep fucking around until it finds out. Might be nuclear apocalypse or environmental collapse, but at this rate it’s inevitable.

I read that. My best guess is that this is either an error that hasn’t been updated in light of empirical studies corroborating MBFC’s reliability, or more likely any self-published list gets the “unreliable” sticker automatically.

Also, making claims about “a consensus” without sourcing these claims is mighty suspicious. Disappointed.

Where’s the critique coming from? The Wiki seems to have nothing but positive things to say. Might be an error. Ironic.

Scientific studies[23] using its ratings note that ratings from Media Bias/Fact Check show high agreement with an independent fact checking dataset from 2017,[8] with NewsGuard[9] and with BuzzFeed journalists.[10] When MBFC factualness ratings of ‘mostly factual’ or higher were compared to an independent fact checking dataset’s ‘verified’ and ‘suspicious’ news sources, the two datasets showed “almost perfect” inter-rater reliability.

Or maybe it eats people. Arguably way more effective.

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I’m actually surprised it took people this long to realize how truly horrible Intel leadership has been over the past 2 decades.

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The problem with your hypothesis is that all of us can read a history book, and yet few would agree with the majority of Israeli citizens that murdering children is justified.

Again, if someone were persecuted, why would that make him want to murder random children? It makes no logical sense. The only explanation is brainwashing and religious zealotry.

5% of the population is psychopathic. Folks forget this stat. They also forget that moral competence exists on a spectrum, so that even regular people are capable of great evil, especially in service to their religion.

Bad people will do bad things, sure, but if you want good people to do bad things, you need religion.

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Then we should rename this community to “dumb things that are obviously wrong.” Or maybe “anti science.”

if you don’t have any interesting opinions — evaluative judgements formed on the basis of evidence disregarded by the majority — that doesn’t mean you should latch onto nihilistic gobbledygook. That’s just… pointless.

And by the way, there are tons of scientific takes that enjoy opinion status. For instance, “psychopathy is far more common than 5% and the condition should be treated very aggressively.” That’s an opinion. It’s an evaluative response to inconclusive or incomplete evidence.

Opinions are evaluative judgements below the epistemic threshold for facticity. Denying science isn’t “an opinion.” Worse, it’s very boring.

You’re not edgy when you claim that germs don’t cause disease. You’re just wrong. I mean if that’s what you consider an “unpopular opinion” you might as well fill this community with the autogenerated negation of all the sentences in Wikipedia. Zzzzz. Boring.

Two problems with that. First, you’re saying something like “the world is flat.” That’s not an opinion; it’s just wrong. Worse still, your “opinion” is literally the most popular take on drug addiction, informing all the moronic laws that cause so much unabated misery.

Seriously folks, an unpopular opinion is something like: “eating meat will be regarded in 100 years the same way as slavery.” That’s unpopular (and probably true). It’s also nonfactual, and therefore just an opinion.