Why Do Conservatives Fall For Fake News?

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You don't come off as uppity to me, but I have noticed at the other site psychological intimidation tactics such as labelling someone using a negative term/word such as that is really an attempt to manipulate and intimidate when their political spin or their twisting the facts or them leaving out other truths is called out.

No,@"Freija" is not "uppity", but she is defensive, and understandably so. Almost all humans - or any other organism for that matter - will become defensive when it perceives a threat against itself, independent of any social, moral, religious, or political stances. The urge to defense transcends all those things, and is one of the more basic instincts anyone, or anything, has. It's more primal than even the urge to reproduce. It is the instinct to survive. That is why attack posts are so effective at eliciting a desired, usually emotional, response.

You are correct about negative terms/words being used to intimidate and manipulate. I noticed that right off several years ago, when that business of anyone having an opposing opinion to one's own was suddenly called a "racist" in an attempt to shut them down, regardless of whether the discussion had anything at all to do with race or not. it was just used to squelch any opposition, in any situation. That too seems to elicit a primal response, usually one of flight rather than fight, which is why it is used and abused so much.

Rather you come off as a warrior standing up for what you know to be your truth. Those than don't walk in your shoes do not know your truth and most here and the other site have no interest or unable to objectively open their mind to other people's certain realities and truths in life, but I am trying to listen and understand.

There is no "your truth", "my truth", or "their truth". there is only "truth", and it belongs to everyone. The problem is, humans are really damned ineffective at ferreting it out. Experiences vary from person to person, but Truth does not.

I'll stick with the science and watch what happens in the courtrooms because there we get more than an inkling of what is empirical evidence and societal truth, or at least what the majority of society deems equitable (jury of one's peers) and where the science holds truth, and from this position we can then know better where the culture/religious/political wars are heading.

It's sad, but I was trained to science - physics and astronomy - but nowadays I find myself less and less convinced of the objectivity of current scientific effort. It seems to be increasingly politicized with a concurrent decrease in objectivity. The hell of it is, you generally have to actually read the papers, and step through the experimental design they used to achieve that desired goal, to really see what they are really doing, and most folks are just not equipped for that - so, they either blindly embrace what they believe to be "science", or blindly reject what they believe to be "not science" because it conflicts with their own pet theories. Both stances are just as invalid as the other.

So, people usually do what they are told by "experts" or else reject what they are told out of hand just because it conflicts with their worldview... but most of those never, EVER, read and evaluate the actual papers - they just take someone else's word about the "Cliff's Notes" of that paper.

Tq Freija's credit, she actually reads those papers, where most of her opponents do not, so she actually has the intellectual upper hand in most of her discussions.

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Freija actually explains bimorphism and other scientific evidence from those research papers so her truth is actually scientific fact, IMO as well as the expert's opinions who are working in that specific field.  It then remains that it is one's freedom of choice (?) to accept the empirical evidence as scientific fact as truth or not. Then we are delving into all sorts of nastiness about beliefs, programming ... you get where I am going. Believing is seeing. Believing is also confirmation bias so no amount of scrutiny or peer review will ever make a subjective biased thinker be objective.