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[โ€“] [email protected] 114 points 1 week ago (7 children)

"your statistic is false because I have an anecdote" is literally the entire basis of the conservative understanding of science.

union workers don't make more on average because I earn half a dollar more.

global warming isn't happening because I brought a snowball.

vaccines cause death because my friend walked out of a clinic after a shot and got hit by a self driving tesla.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Because I have an anecdote, and interpret it in the stupidest way possible, as exhibited in the OP

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