<div dir="ltr">For me, this is one of the most disturbing aspects of how things unfolded. I encountered outright hostility in many cases for even daring to ask legitimate questions like the ones we're discussing now, and witnessed first hand the attempts to destroy any public figure that dared raise them as well regardless of their qualifications. People were being threatened with having their licenses pulled to practice medicine for daring to question the narrative. <div><br></div><div>The tenets of scientific inquiry were completely abandoned by those who should know better.</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Feb 18, 2023 at 2:21 PM spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div class="msg-7214995763741059626"><div lang="EN-US" style="overflow-wrap: break-word;"><div class="m_-7214995763741059626WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><div style="border-right:none;border-bottom:none;border-left:none;border-top:1pt solid rgb(225,225,225);padding:3pt 0in 0in"><p class="MsoNormal"><b>…</b>> <b>On Behalf Of </b>Darin Sunley via extropy-chat<br><b>…</b><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal">>…My concerns about the technology grew as the answers morphed from "It's variable and complicated, so don't worry about it" to "Asking questions is heresy, citizen."… Darin<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">That vibe was definitely there. I am in other chat groups besides this one, and that whole “every question is a conspiracy theory” vibe was very clear. How creepy is that?<u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal"><u></u> <u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal">spike<u></u><u></u></p></div></div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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