I'll be following with deep interest, Melanie. This is an issue I run into continuously. I've written a piece specifically about it, and it touches much of what I cover. I'm excited to learn about the New Zealand perspective.
We do end up getting quite a lot from the American far right here. I don't think that we have quite the same extent of issues with social cohesion, but they still do exist.
Thrilled to hear you're writing about this - I'm doing the course too, largely because the people who spread climate disinfo also have their eyes on rainbow communities at the moment, too. Excited to read your perspectives!
I've just checked out the course you'll be doing - it looks fantastic. Thanks for all your mahi in this space. I'm ready looking forward to your content on overcoming disinformation.
A great topic. Resolution seems always to fret about logic when our feelings are the challenge. My observation about vaccines at least in the US was a generation of ill-informed lefties polluted the dialog for a generation. Hollywood darlings like Robert DeNiro kept shouting stupid stuff. Donald Trump opened the floodgates for righties to do the same. My sense. is independent of your politics, unless you are willing to call both of them buffoons, we are lost. My sense is most people highlight one, not the other. Ignorance is ignorance.
I have a vivid memory of a scientist who worked on genetic modification decrying people opposed to GM as irrational, and yet everything he said and did could have come from a textbook of "how to make people mistrust your work". He was, quite clearly, the most irrational person in the room.
Personally, I try to avoid calling either side a buffoon, but believe me it's tempting.
People who work in a field have special responsibility for sure. Arrogance turns most people off. My sense is the carnival barkers like Trump and Hollywood celebrities get a free pass to say stupid things. The casual listener who thinks they are funny or liked their last movie ends up ill-inforned. We ended up with 20+;years of under-vaccinated children in our elementary schools thinking their kids won't catch autism. This had nothing to do with Trump -- he just piled on and made it worse.
I'll be following with deep interest, Melanie. This is an issue I run into continuously. I've written a piece specifically about it, and it touches much of what I cover. I'm excited to learn about the New Zealand perspective.
We do end up getting quite a lot from the American far right here. I don't think that we have quite the same extent of issues with social cohesion, but they still do exist.
Greatly enjoying the precision of the observer’s reported velocity in these three photos.
I think some of your roads are actually 110kph, so it could have been higher.
I'm looking forward to this!
Thank you, so am I.
Thrilled to hear you're writing about this - I'm doing the course too, largely because the people who spread climate disinfo also have their eyes on rainbow communities at the moment, too. Excited to read your perspectives!
Thanks, I look forward to meeting you through the course. I'm sure there will be lots that is more widely relevant than just climate.
I've just checked out the course you'll be doing - it looks fantastic. Thanks for all your mahi in this space. I'm ready looking forward to your content on overcoming disinformation.
Thanks, I really appreciate it.
Indeed they are!
A great topic. Resolution seems always to fret about logic when our feelings are the challenge. My observation about vaccines at least in the US was a generation of ill-informed lefties polluted the dialog for a generation. Hollywood darlings like Robert DeNiro kept shouting stupid stuff. Donald Trump opened the floodgates for righties to do the same. My sense. is independent of your politics, unless you are willing to call both of them buffoons, we are lost. My sense is most people highlight one, not the other. Ignorance is ignorance.
I have a vivid memory of a scientist who worked on genetic modification decrying people opposed to GM as irrational, and yet everything he said and did could have come from a textbook of "how to make people mistrust your work". He was, quite clearly, the most irrational person in the room.
Personally, I try to avoid calling either side a buffoon, but believe me it's tempting.
People who work in a field have special responsibility for sure. Arrogance turns most people off. My sense is the carnival barkers like Trump and Hollywood celebrities get a free pass to say stupid things. The casual listener who thinks they are funny or liked their last movie ends up ill-inforned. We ended up with 20+;years of under-vaccinated children in our elementary schools thinking their kids won't catch autism. This had nothing to do with Trump -- he just piled on and made it worse.
Sounds good.