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An unfounded theory taking root online suggests millions of people have been hypnotized into believing mainstream ideas about COVID-19, including steps to combat it such as testing and vaccination.
In widely shared social media posts this week, efforts to combat the disease have been dismissed with just three words: mass formation psychosis.
Im not a scientist but Im pretty sure healthy people spending hours in line to get a virus test is mass formation psychosis in action, reads one tweet that was liked more than 22,000 times.
The term gained attention after it was floated by Dr. Robert Malone on The Joe Rogan Experience Dec. 31 podcast. Malone is a scientist who once researched mRNA technology but is now a vocal skeptic of the COVID-19 vaccines that use it.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/fact-focus-unfounded-theory-used-170410144.html
Let's go Darwin.
Shermann
(7,355 posts)Are those the ideas that are clustered to best fit all the available evidence?
In other words, the ideas that are most likely to be correct according to the scientific method?
SergeStorms
(18,880 posts)than lobotomized into thinking it's a hoax.
These freaking idiots will do and say anything to get more people killed by this heinous virus.
DBoon
(22,284 posts)it is profoundly delusional
PortTack
(32,605 posts)bahboo
(16,234 posts)I'm young, handsome, rich, women love me. Hmmm......