I used to "know" and "believe" that contagious disease through microbes was real.
Now that I have doubts, I see so many people who "know" and "believe" like I did. In some cases, their lives revolve around this idea, because their chronic disease or disbility has become identical to their personality. They are their disease.
In other cases, they are sure because it is their profession.
But they become angry when they hear other person expressing doubts. Having doubts means, for them, that the doubter denies disease, pain, suffering. That's a bad way to reason, but they don't care about logic.
Frauds would be more difficult to pull if people knew more about logic, and about their emotions.
I am now curious about the tuskegee experiments. They claim these black men were infected with syphilis and left untreated, resulting in full blown disease and transmission to their spouses.
I used to "know" and "believe" that contagious disease through microbes was real.
Now that I have doubts, I see so many people who "know" and "believe" like I did. In some cases, their lives revolve around this idea, because their chronic disease or disbility has become identical to their personality. They are their disease.
In other cases, they are sure because it is their profession.
But they become angry when they hear other person expressing doubts. Having doubts means, for them, that the doubter denies disease, pain, suffering. That's a bad way to reason, but they don't care about logic.
Frauds would be more difficult to pull if people knew more about logic, and about their emotions.
I am now curious about the tuskegee experiments. They claim these black men were infected with syphilis and left untreated, resulting in full blown disease and transmission to their spouses.