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This weekend, despite the advice of health experts, federal authorities, and state officials, many churches held Easter services. At the…
Tweet Interesting article from a man married to an anti-vaxxer . It reminds me a little about studies showing that a prejudiced people need intense contact with the members of the group they’re biased against before eliminating their prejudice; casual contact can be counterproductive. In the case of the article, overcoming bias was a two-way street, with the author having to abandon his (lazy) belief that anti-vaxxers were just uninformed and stupid.
Mal Adapted said… I suppose I’ll acknowledge that not everything 8c says is ranty, strictly speaking (although I’d like to know how to work that click-and-ignore trick). As an atheist I have no personal use for the Pope’s theology either
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Please consider the Guardian report "The Disappeared": Chicago Police Detain Americans at Abuse-Laden ‘Black Site’ The Chicago police department operates an off-the-books interrogation compound, rendering Americans unable to be found by family or attorneys while locked inside what lawyers say is the domestic equivalent of a CIA black site.
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