If the virus was deadlier, and the vaccine was obviously very effective (sterilizing) with no side effects, then vax deniers would obviously be wackos.
What he’s missing is that doubts about the vaccine that turned out to be true were suppressed by the ppl whose job it was to be
I couldn't believe Sam made another "if the virus killed more kids" argument, so I cut a longer clip.
What he's saying this time is "in an extreme enough situation anything is justifiable".
What he doesn't get is that we need principles because we have imperfect sensemaking.🧵
NOT MEDICAL ADVICE:
Dementia is coming for all of us, if something else doesn’t get us sooner. But despite how common and destructive it is, we have surprisingly little cultural knowledge about it.
In the hospital, I'm often present for the first time that a person's dementia
I got into @DavidDeutschOxf in 2018, shortly after the birth of our first child. I read Beginning of Infinity over and over and couldn't stop thinking about it.
Months later, I discovered Taking Children Seriously, essentially Deutsch's ideas applied to parenting.
Well, what is a habit?
A habit is a condensed piece of knowledge. Operating a steering wheel, turn signal, brake pedal, and side mirror while driving had to first be learned, found to be useful, and then the brain ingeniously creates a shortcut to this knowledge that's so
I just finished @AbigailShrier’s Bad Therapy.
Well worth the read.
Best points:
1 Therapy is probably more harmful than helpful for almost all kids bc no matter what, kids will get the message that something is so wrong with them that their own parents can’t help.
