Re: It's a myth that cellphone use caused the accident rate to rise in the USA

Andrew <andrew@spam.net> wrote:

bad💽sector wrote on Thu, 30 May 2024 21:42:00 -0400 :
 

The main message I wanted to communicate is that people believe in myths
that have no basis in fact when you bother to doublecheck the facts.

 
There's a dividing line you seem to be confused about, the one between
science and belief, the two equally are important realms that are by
definition mutually exclusive of one another. The latter tries to
process issues that the former is incapable of resolving. To think that
all that is is what we 'know' in the folly of many. I once read a
perfect example of this when an astronomer (of all people!) said "we
cannot find dark matter so it does not exist".

 
You touch on a point that I've always tried to figure out

Yet you don't respond to posts which directly answer the question at hand.

why people come
up with religious beliefs about anything (e.g., Apple phones), where that
belief system is always two things, it seems,

You're more interesting in name calling or reducing topics you don't
understand into meaningless categories.

which is the crime here.

There's no crime.

 
1. The belief is fed to the people (by someone with something to gain)
2. The belief is wrong
 
Take the iPhone, for example:
a. Apple feeds iPhone owners all sorts of false messaging, right?
b. And Apple benefits greatly by feeding Apple owners these myths
 
Same here with cellphones.
a. The government benefits with the increased revenue from ticketing
b. And the government feeds people that it's "doing something" for safety.
 
And yet, as with Apple, the only benefit is to their bottom line.
Even as most people never question those two myths, right?
 
Back to your point, religion was the first "science" that explained
everything,

Religion was never and never will be a "science". They are diametrically
opposite in application.

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