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Meteorologists targeted in climate misinfo surge:
Once trusted faces on the news, meteorologists now brave threats, insults and slander online from conspiracy theorists and climate change deniers who accuse them of faking or even fixing the weather.
Users on Twitter and other social media falsely accused Spain's weather agency of engineering a drought, Australia's of doctoring its thermometers and France's of exaggerating global warming through misplaced weather stations.
"The coronavirus is no longer a trend. Conspiracy theorists and deniers who used to talk about that are now spreading disinformation about climate change," Alexandre Lopez-Borrull, lecturer in Information and Communication Sciences at the Open University of Catalonia, told AFP.
[...] "In this context people feel alienated and end up listening to people they never listened to before, with messages appealing directly to the emotions."
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Tuesday May 16, @06:54PM (6 children)
Conspiracy theorism would have to be seen as a sin against the Judeo-Christian god for that to happen
I suspect you're not an American, because the US was set up as a secular nation where Christians and Satanists are equally protected. The first amendment guarantees the freedom of speech, religion, and the press, and prohibits government from getting into them.
Obviously Boebert is as ignorant of our Constitution as you are, as she wants an American Christian Taliban.
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(Score: 2) by hendrikboom on Wednesday May 17, @12:30AM (3 children)
Doesn't seem to work all that well in practice. But the constitution does seem to slow down the slide into a theocracy.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday May 17, @03:38AM (2 children)
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday May 17, @02:44PM (1 child)
It doesn't matter that the average person is less likely to be religious these days. What matters is, a particular corrrupted version of christianity (dominionism) has spent several decades in a concerted push to taking over every level of every government of every nation, and sharing the results with each other on what works and what doesn't, and what's most cost effective. See: Seven Mountains, IDU.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Thursday May 18, @02:24AM
See "1) complete lack of progress towards a theocracy". It matters a lot more than you claim that the average person is less likely to be religious. Because that's where the tremendous opposition will come from for even mild dominionism policy.
(Score: 2) by OrugTor on Wednesday May 17, @04:26PM (1 child)
You may have misunderstood my point. The current Supreme Court and many red state legislatures have been implementing a theocratic agenda. Hence my jibe that if a proposed law could be cast as a god's law it stands a change of passing in some jurisdictions.
I'm well aware of the secular foundation of the state. Are you aware that the foundation is being eroded by the toxic waste that is religion?
(Score: 2) by mcgrew on Tuesday May 23, @09:15PM
Yes, and those toxic wastes are the wolves in sheep's clothing. If you see a man wearing a tie, he's not a Christian. The tie is Satan's leash, symbol of wealth and power, everything Christianity warns against. Those wolves stand on pulpits.
Religious wars are never fought over religion, they're fought over land, wealth, and power, in the name of religion. It's their excuse. It doesn't matter if those wars are over monotheism, polytheism, or no god at all, all wars are fought over wealth and power.
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