... Apparently dinosaurs are gay
The flat Earth comment
You are kidding me right? She says she is reading material that people messaged her about because she is a curious person. It is now a basis to slander someone for being curious? She said she is not a flat earther, I am not one either, but I also am curious how anyone could be and I can certainly understand why someone would read about that to find out why others feel that way.
I am a geologist. I taught Earth science for years and that included teaching proofs that the earth is curved and how we calculate that curvature and how that relates to navigation and latitude and longitude. Despite all of that I have never characterized myself as a "round earther" and have no idea why anyone would take offense at someone who says they are not a round earther.
As for the "cult of science" anyone who has studied science, like myself (knows there is such a thing as the cult of science). For example, in the 1970s when I was in high school some looney tunes came out and said the dinosaurs were wiped out by an asteroid. He was ridiculed and mocked for being anti science and being a dreaded creationist because the prevailing theory of the day was "the present is the key to the past". We don't see massive extinction level events today so that meant they never happened in the past. This was the scientists way of debunking the story about Noah. But this looney tunes kept finding more and more evidence until one day it went from him being a looney tune to "oh yeah, everybody knows that".
Another more moder example is our understanding of viral infections. We did studies and found that maintaining a distance of 3 feet from people will greatly reduce the viral load you are exposed to and thus reduce how badly you might be impacted should you get exposed to someone who is sick. This was the basis for imposing social distancing rules during the pandemic. However, Fauci used six feet instead of three feet. If it had been three feet you would not have had to shut down schools and small businesses. But six feet made it impossible to keep them open. This draconian law that bankrupted many and damaged the education of so many children was not based on any study, but they claimed it was. That was the cult of science, people trusting some guy with a degree and a job title over their own common sense and critical thinking.
Then of course Fauci said that recovering from a virus is the best inoculation and there is no need to get a vaccine if you have recovered from this. That is what I and all the other science teachers taught in our HS science classes. But then for some reason they tossed that out during the pandemic and all those people who failed HS science were now screaming at the rest of the world to "respect the science". That also was the cult of science.
These bird brains told us that we have mandated other vaccines and so mandating this one was no different. Baloney, show me any vaccine we mandated and it took 50 years before we had a vaccine that was proven to be safe and effective. They always claimed they were safe and effective until they were proven not to be. I had taught that but now I needed these crazies who had flunked science screaming at me to respect the science and forcing people out of their jobs over this. Yes, that was a crazy cult of science.
What is a personality cult? In one word it was "Fauci".
