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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

Disagreeing with the orthodoxy is a good way to draw a lot of attention to yourself, which has benefits both social and financial. And, if you exist in a fact-free culture like the US has, there’s no immediate harm to yourself even if your counter-orthodoxy is both wrong and dangerous. I don’t think it is much more complicated than that.