re: 4Chan found the playbook on spinning vax narrative

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That's an interesting idea. Everybody can and should improve their critical skills to try to judge better, but there's still so much information out there that you get 2nd, 3rd, or Nth hand, that you can't even figure out where to go to evaluate a particular claim and don't try. Like people asking today, "what are even the sources of documented vaccination deaths?" People both don't know and despair of the possibility of knowing, so they just speculate to each other about conspiracies to obscure knowledge.

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As much as I don't care for google (doubly now that the ex wife works there), the last I checked google docs was pretty good for primary documentation from ppl that lived in the time. Depends on the topic of course. For example, you can get memoirs from ppl that lived during the civil war to hear what they had to say about why they fought and/or supported either side. Compare that against the overly-simplistic narrative and you can walk away with some significant info whether it be what you were looking for or not. Could be the only take away is that history as taught is garbage and you can find your own sources for context elsewhere.

I will look at those books you listed and at least read the final chapters :)

Any tips on how to vet data would be quite welcomed.

One thing that I struggle with is, so what. So I spent a life digging for truth and fine tuning my bullshite meter. What do I do with it? If it goes to the grave with me then what was the point? So there is the rub, can't wait for perfect understanding before taking some form of action. Do the best we can with what we know or think we know and stay open to change.