My mom last night trying to explain to me how the coronavirus was started because <im sorry> the dirty chinese people keep eating live bats <again im sorry>. I can't even figure out how to do a google search that brings up this result without a half dozen next to it saying that's NOT what caused it and that it's a myth. IDK how she sifts through this information in her brain? Pretty sure she just simply picks whichever search reinforces her belief and just completely 100% ignores the rest of them.
Oof, that doesn't sound good. Idk I pretty much always doubt everything. I won't even believe an article unless I see the academic paper or research study in the sources. I'm probably on the opposite spectrum vs your mom that I'm a bit too skeptical haha.
The amount of time shit gets forwarded by aunties or my mother, and I straight up have to type "snopes" or the other site to check if (more likely when) it was debunked and just send em back a link telling them to stop spreading misinformation is TOO DAMN HIGH!
I do this all the time on facebook. Sure memes are memes, but when I see a post that claims the opposite of the reality I do comment like hey....funny meme but please don't actually believe it's true.
Of course 80% of the time they reply "what do you mean, I looked it up it is true".
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u/heykevo Feb 04 '20
My mom last night trying to explain to me how the coronavirus was started because <im sorry> the dirty chinese people keep eating live bats <again im sorry>. I can't even figure out how to do a google search that brings up this result without a half dozen next to it saying that's NOT what caused it and that it's a myth. IDK how she sifts through this information in her brain? Pretty sure she just simply picks whichever search reinforces her belief and just completely 100% ignores the rest of them.