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A Republican district judge rules in favor of anti-vaxxers. Go figure.

 

I'm betting that doesn't make it past the NY Supreme court, since this was a lower court (which the J6 defendant attorney who tweeted that fails to clarify). 

 

There's a reason they filed that in Richmond County (Staten Island) and not in, say, Manhattan. 

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1 hour ago, Archy1221 said:

NY Court must all be “Trump supporters”. Trump probably told them to make this ruling 

I know you are joking, but Trump gets way too much credit from those adore him AND those who loathe him

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If you believe covid was a hoax most likely you believe the election was stolen.  

 

 

https://studyfinds.org/covid-hoax-conspiracy-theories/

 

 

 

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Doubting the severity of the COVID-19 pandemic or generally believing that the entire crisis was a man-made hoax can serve as a “gateway” to believing other conspiracy theories, a new study claims.

Researchers from The Ohio State University say their findings show that people who reported a greater belief in conspiracy theories related to the pandemic were more likely to also think the 2020 presidential election was stolen from Donald Trump through acts of voter fraud.

The researchers add their preliminary evidence suggests that a sense of distrust may act as a trigger. They hypothesize that belief in one conspiracy, prompted by a single event, leads to an increase in conspiratorial thinking over time. Trends in the data also suggest that financial distress during lockdown could have sparked belief in COVID conspiracy theories, even among people who did not think conspiratorially before the virus.

 


 

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The research team asked 501 participants in a June 2020 survey to answer questions assessing their beliefs in COVID-19 conspiracy theories, their political ideology, and what is called conspiracist ideation — or someone’s overall endorsement for conspiracy theories.

 

In this section, participants used a five-point scale ranging from “definitely not true” to “definitely true” to rate statements such as “some UFO sightings and rumors are planned or staged in order to distract the public from real alien contact” and “new and advanced technology which would harm current industry is being suppressed.”

Six months later, in December 2020, researchers asked 107 of those participants to report the extent to which they believed there had been voter fraud in the 2020 election.

Statistical analysis showed that participants who reported a greater belief that the coronavirus was intentionally released for malicious purposes and that the severity of COVID infections was blown out of proportion also reported a greater belief that the 2020 election had been stolen from then-President Trump.

 

Those same COVID sceptics had more of an affinity for other conspiracy theories than they did in the June survey six months previously, according to the findings published in the journal PLoS ONE.

 

 

 

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Does a person’s political beliefs matter?

This was true even after the analysis took into account the association between COVID conspiracy beliefs, voter fraud, and conservative political views — leading the researchers to suggest that belief in one conspiracy theory leads to another.

 

“It’s speculative, but it appears that once people adopt one conspiracy belief, it promotes distrust in institutions more generally – it could be government, science, the media, whatever,” says senior author Russell Fazio, a professor of psychology at Ohio State. “Once you start viewing events through that distrustful lens, it’s very easy to adopt additional conspiracy theories.”

The team also used data from a large U.K. study conducted in the early spring and late autumn of 2020, which shows that British adults who believe COVID is a hoax are also more likely to believe in other conspiracy theories over time. While some past conspiracy theories have turned out to be true, the researchers say this study focused on beliefs that are not supported by evidence.

 

 

 

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1 hour ago, Archy1221 said:

Timing helps no one.   Just file under things we already knew 

Can always count on you to link things that support your viewpoint, even though you can’t seem to be able to offer much insight as to why. 
 

The report seems to center on:

 

1) we can’t find the animal that caused a spillover

2) There was a lab conducting coronavirus experiments close by

3) China is being shifty

 

therefore, lab leak. 
 

Brilliant progression. 

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1 hour ago, Jason Sitoke said:

Can always count on you to link things that support your viewpoint, even though you can’t seem to be able to offer much insight as to why. 
 

The report seems to center on:

 

1) we can’t find the animal that caused a spillover

2) There was a lab conducting coronavirus experiments close by

3) China is being shifty

 

therefore, lab leak. 
 

Brilliant progression. 

Ah yes, your counter retorts are so informative.   I mean you have such good links to data that refute the post you reply and give a great counterp…………errrr never mind.  You actually don’t do have that.   
 

Instead it’s a few snide remarks sometimes with Latin word or two.   Let me know when you have some substance to provide showing this massive case for an animal no one can find giving Covid-19 to a human in such a quick fashion the spread took place on the existing known timeline.  

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17 minutes ago, Archy1221 said:

Ah yes, your counter retorts are so informative.   I mean you have such good links to data that refute the post you reply and give a great counterp…………errrr never mind.  You actually don’t do have that.   
 

Instead it’s a few snide remarks sometimes with Latin word or two.   Let me know when you have some substance to provide showing this massive case for an animal no one can find giving Covid-19 to a human in such a quick fashion the spread took place on the existing known timeline.  

My snide comments are prepared and thought out.

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