From: ldo@nz.invalid   
      
   On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 07:59:43 -0000 (UTC), Oregonian Haruspex wrote:   
      
   > Lawrence D'Oliveiro  wrote:   
   >   
   >> On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 07:39:19 -0000 (UTC), Oregonian Haruspex wrote:   
   >>   
   >>> Lawrence D'Oliveiro  wrote:   
   >>>   
   >>>> On Thu, 5 Dec 2024 06:06:14 -0000 (UTC), Oregonian Haruspex wrote:   
   >>>>   
   >>>>> If experts can lie, with the official permission of, even urging of,   
   >>>>> governments, to get what they want, everybody can.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Who told you the experts are lying? Do you take the word of some   
   >>>> random Facebook/Xwitter loony (or local politician who believes them)   
   >>>> over somebody who has made a career out of studying the cause and   
   >>>> treatment of diseases? Do you find it easier to respond to someone   
   >>>> who pushes your buttons, rather than someone who tries to give you   
   >>>> accurate explanations that you cannot be bothered to expend the   
   >>>> mental effort to try to understand?   
   >>>>   
   >>> You seem very offended.   
   >>   
   >> Projecting? I merely ask questions.   
   >>   
   > You need a new script ...   
      
   First you tried to say I was “offended”, then you betray the signs that   
   you yourself are the one offended ... projecting, exactly as I said.   
      
   Pro Internet tip: if you have to start resorting to an ad-hominem   
   smokescreen to distract from the discussion at hand, that’s a sign you’ve   
   run out of logical arguments to defend your position.   
      
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