I am writing this when we enter the third week of the UK into a lock to try to stop the spread of the Coronaf virus. These weeks, and those that precede the lock, were a challenge. We have no reason to worry only about our health and the welfare of those we care about, but we also had to process all kinds of information while trying to determine good information from bad with very little evidence to help.
Share to face wrong information
In fact, there was a great deal of wrong information that is shared so that the UK government has specialized teams working to combat wrong novels about the Coronav virus. This is to ensure that the public has the correct information to protect themselves. The UK government also asked the general public to help in this effort and promote Involve Abbreviation- part of themDo not feed the monster campaignIt can help people judge the information they treat for its accuracy.
source Ensure that the information comes from a reliable source, such as the national health service,
the address Always read the stubborn claims that are written to attract your attention and not always accurate.
analysis Check the facts. Do any studies actually mention what was reported? Are others different?
Spread Does the image or video look like as if it was stored?
mistake Find the rules of bad language and dictation that can indicate that information is not a professional.
I mentioned the guardian “Dangerous Antichrist treats” to Covid-19 to be shared online to social media companies must be informed immediately. The new social media instructions that you developed A center for confronting digital hatred Ask people not to respond to or exchange wrong information on social media – even for criticism. Doing this creates more sharing for the original misleading materials and re -broadcasting with social media algorithms to show the misleading content of more users. Take Twitter as an example – the platform uses a deep educational algorithm that prioritizes more previous post. This does not distinguish between an original bad tweet and the re -tweet that criticizes it, so a tweet to indicate that it is wrong to actually enhance it.
As a paranormal researcher that uses doubts in my work, the ability to discover logical fallacies, deception and wrong information is an important part of what I do. Although the paranormal may not be directly linked to local viruses, there are some similarities between the reason for people thinking wrong information about both topics, and why they share it with others without checking this. Seeing the efforts made to process wrong information related to the Corona virus was inspiring, and engaging with people on social media about the wrong information Coronavirus virus, renewed my motivation to do what I do and to be more productive with it as well. Reporting and correcting wrong information, not interlocking deception, exploring facts in the puzzle center, and more …
However, as I thought more about this during the past few weeks, I also realized that I could not continue to do what I am doing as part of the skeptical movement. What has become clear – especially because we are dealing with the Coronavirus’s pandemic – is that skeptical movement is not a good place for people who want to make a positive change. Such people are busy with movement by chance and their work results are rarely a product of the movement itself.
The skeptical movement is largely intended for people who believe that their lack of faith in some non -scientific ideas makes them superior to those who believe. no. Often how someone treats someone who thinks is lower than this a good indication of anyone who is someone. Many of the skeptical movement fail in this test. The lack of belief should not be all that determines you. The things you believe in – sympathy, friendship, equality and justice – should be what determines and form it. This is what matters most.
The skeptical movement is a place where the work I do as a paranormal researcher is a light entertainment but is not taken seriously because for the majority of the movement, the supernatural ideas do not deserve time. Unless the comedy. For example, when I requested notes on conversations about ghost research that I present in skeptical events, I was sponsored to include more funny stories and experts and include less horrific materials about the reality of modern ghost research (people who annoy the families of the murders, for example) in skeptical movement, there are very few people looking for my value at the time they require. Among the few who do it, there is a smaller minority that is still not a bad apple.
The reason is that a person believes in him and enhances wrong information is important. I cannot contribute or exist in a movement that is not considered an understanding of this priority. Or where most people encourage lines between bad ideas and people who believe in them and attack randomly. For a long time, I noticed a disgraceful language about the mental health used to describe people with alternative beliefs. I cannot, in a good conscience, turn away from it. Whenever the use of this language, or the terrible methods in which people are treated in the skeptical movement, those who do not agree with them, the “police tone” is accused, but is this wonder that this happens in a deaf movement?
And do not make me start the problem that the movement faces with predators who are sexually intended and bothering women. I have spoken in many events of the skeptical movement over the years, but two conferences are the rest of the rest. The famous man attacked at least one woman in each of them, and this was exposed by the organizers. The organizers who have been warned were in advance, but, I think the risks deserve to risk ticket sales. The women in the skeptical movement called on the issue of sexual assault in the movement before the start of the global #Metoo movement, and those who led the battle against it were silently harassed; Karen Stollzo, Rebecca Watson, many, many others …
I will never forgive the movement for this. Especially the “leaders” of the movement whose condemnation of these men has not extended and harassed beyond the closed doors, as their silence rang loudly. He still rings loudly …
I also faced fullness of sitting in the masses in conferences where people talk about how we all should do better to interact with the believers, to be nice, not “be a rooster.” Just not to look at anything by the majority of people in the movement who do not contribute anything in the world except for the feeling of succinct at the expense of people who do not care about them and will never do that.
I will continue to use suspicion as I have always. Nothing will change with regard to what I do, unlike that I will not do it as part of the skeptical movement.
I think the idea of ​​my back to the skeptical movement has its roots on a journey I made to Lancashire in November 2019. I spoke at the Lapis Conference – a parallel occurred under the title aimed at believers in supernatural ideas more than anyone else. You were the most skeptical person in the list of speakers and perhaps the only unbeliever in the paranormal as well. The biggest ready -made meals of this event was that some people present thought that I would be a fool because of my association with skeptical movement. One of the people who were exposed to their journey to the conference stated how surprising me of the pleasure of me (chants!) And how nice I was to hang out and talk to him.
The difference was between me in real life and expected who I am because of the skeptical mark is huge, and I never liked it. Then I realized that skeptical movement is luggage. She leaves me before I can say my article and this negative link limits my work effectiveness. Always, I think. Maybe you are just ready to carry this weight before, but I will not do anymore.
It may indicate that I wrote similar publications about leaving the skeptical movement before when the movement’s defects became too much – when I felt luggage with heavy. That’s right, I have. I was always seduced by the words of friends who reassured me that the horror is just a minority and that the movement is largely better than that and improvement. However, it has been shown that hard work and optimism between the few is outweighed by the unproductive and bad behavior of many.
Some may also suggest that I am writing this because I secretly believe in ghosts. This conspiracy is present even within the movement is an indication of the irrational importance that many skeptics put to get rid of the believers who are not believers so that they can be rejected Prior to, It is evidence, if necessary, that the problem is not me …
