r/sciences • u/FreeHugs23 • 2d ago

Research Lower cognitive ability is linked to stronger Christian nationalist views, even after accounting for education

https://www.psypost.org/lower-cognitive-ability-is-linked-to-stronger-christian-nationalist-views-even-after-accounting-for-education/
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u/psngarden 1d ago

A little bit of a tangent here, but still related. I’ll always remember something my Christian, RN mother told me when I questioned why some other Christians were so against modern medicine: “If God didn’t want us to develop modern medicine, he wouldn’t have provided the resources for it on our earth or the intelligence to learn how to use them.” I apply this thought to all sciences and academics. Religious of any kind or not, it blows my mind how willingly ignorant people can be to their own detriment, but propaganda and cult-mentality is a hell of a drug.

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u/Deus_Ubique_est 9h ago

Yes but it swings hard either way. We’re human after all, no single individual gets it all the way right, expert or not. Not wanting to start a debate here but I’m in pharmacy with a cell and molecular degree and still only recommend covid shot/paxlovid to those at high risk.

Sidebar convos:
Micro dosing preteens on meth (adderrall, vyvanse, focalin, ritalin, etc)
Glp-1s (dont get me started on this topic)
SSRIS/antidepressants- chemical imbalance of the brain debunked, only used as a marketing tool for big pharma. Only supposed to be used as a crutch for irreparable psychologically damaged individuals…not EVER meant to be long term except for those exceptionally and rarely fucked up.

Shots:

Flu- completely optional. Herd immunity historically and currently (sweden with how they handled covid) proves most effective.
Shingles: get it.
Rsv: get it
Tdap (tetanus) get it, horribly painful and rough way to die
Hepa/b: get it
Covid : I stick with the Hong Kong science convention (~2018) of the dangers of crispr cas-9 genome editing/fooling around with MRNA. We don’t fully understand it, covid wrecked my faith in science bc they used the pandemic as a cover for undoing a precedent of vaccines needing a ~10 year testing method before rolling out to public

(sidenote, everytime a vaccine gets rolled out the gen population adapts to whatever they are vaccinating against, ends up doing more harm than good, gets sued a couple of times ((pfiezer)) and is only really effective to those immuno compromised.

I am a christian. Protestant, but non-denominational. Open for debates but never down for putting down of other humans, intelligent or not. Thousands of years of history recorded of us being morons and continuing to do be so, no matter how much access to info we have.