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OK, cool. What's with the inverted comments? Yes, those are all sources.
And as I said there are a lot of books. If you want to name some then I'll have a look.
Which is compromised by your underlying worldview. Not uniquely so of course, it applies to all of us. But your worldview is a bit "out there" and it constantly leads you to wrong conclusions.
No I don't. I mean yes, that's a source but it's obviously not the only one. It's one you may believe is unreliable and not to be trusted but again that belief is influenced by your worldview. Hence you seeing two articles at the start of the pandemic - they were about various events being postponed - which you declared "fake news". Both were entirely accurate.
I'm not sure what that means. Science is simply a quest to understand things.
What nonsense. Science constantly questions and reevaluates itself. Newton was "right" until Einstein showed he wasn't, and so on.
If science thought it knew everything then it would stop
Of course any science can and should be questioned but it would help if the questioner knew what they were talking about and didn't just question it because "authority bad".
It's that sort of thinking which leads to modern flat earthers. "They" say the earth is a globe and "they" are not to be trusted, therefore...
I'm not entirely sure what any of that means. The main difference between us is our underlying worldviews.
You are clearly better read than me and more knowledgeable on certain subjects. But your ability to draw conclusions from what you read is undermined by that worldview.
You think "authority bad" - to the point where you believe the only alternative worldview must be "authority good".
Actually I'd say "authority not that good, but necessary" is closer to what I think.
But where do our worldviews lead us?
A pandemic happens, the army are going door to door in Birmingham delivering tests.
I think "the army are going door to door in Birmingham delivering tests.", you think "this is to get us used to the presence of the army on our streets!"
There are other examples which I've been over a million times so I won't go on.
But my worldview led me to believe that the pandemic restrictions were an attempt to deal with "a situation". They were misguided because we have pretty incompetent people in charge, but they were clearly a response to the situation - they kept changing as the situation changed, that was a clue. Your worldview led you to it all being about control and ever increasing restrictions curfews and checkpoints.
Who was right and who was wrong? This is why no-one can take you seriously when you put yourself on this pedestal of being the one who knows what's going on.