I hide any thread that deals with education, education funding, or teaching in general for that specific reason. It really saddens me to see that this place is full of so much misinformation and anecdotes made into data (and usually with much more self-confidence than other forums, which is interesting to me).
It's why I generally only ask questions, or ask for clarification instead of directly challenging something I think might be wrong now in threads that aren't related to something I have deeeeep personal knowledge of. I know when I'm out of my area, and don't want to add to the ignorance.
A great habit - especially when your question is an irresistible, easily-addressed homerun to a domain expert wandering through the thread looking for an entry-point.
Challenging something with a question about it, is not adding to ignorance - if a statement/study/fact/belief can't hold to up to questions, from actual opposing critics, what's the point of that position existing?
Being all "PC" and "nice" about stuff that is what it is, or isn't -- THAT adds to ignorance.
I guess maybe I didn't phrase that correctly - I ask challenging questions, but don't state the things I "know" without clarification first. I meant that I don't just pop off with "yeah, but in reality it's x, y, z" because I know that I'm probably ignorant of facts. I'll ask about x, y, or z first.
i am glad you responded, because i just went looking anew and could not find it being debunked...and don't remember what i had seen last time around.
evidently not debunked, as i just (first time in months) went re-reading CDC etc...but the punchlines i remembered from months ago include the only reservoir being cats, who clear the infections themselves, and healthy immune system humans generally have no symptoms.
"Cats can only release the infectious oocytes for between one and three weeks after they become infected, after which they can no longer spread the parasites."
what's interesting, and to your point, is the lack of insight as to why some people have side effects like bipolar and schizophrenia.
> Vault 7 is a series of documents that WikiLeaks began to publish on 7 March 2017, detailing the activities and capabilities of the United States Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) to perform electronic surveillance and cyber warfare. The files, dating from 2013 to 2016, include details on the agency's software capabilities, such as the ability to compromise cars, smart TVs, web browsers including Google Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera, the operating systems of most smartphones including Apple's iOS and Google's Android, and computer operating systems including Microsoft Windows, macOS, and Linux.
> In July 2022, former CIA software engineer Joshua Schulte was convicted of leaking the documents to WikiLeaks, and in February 2024 sentenced to 40 years' imprisonment.
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