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"Poisoning the well" is a very effective strategy, it can feed into the drama and hyped up emotional response to a bad situation, but when when it has been disproven it is mostly forgiven and seen as the perpetrators over commitment to the cause then all is forgiven until the next time. Now we have an ineffective loop that goes nowhere, this strategy has been repeated so many times, but no matter if they have malign or benign intentions the same damage occurs.

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Very interesting. I see this poisoning the well very often. For example during the covid emergency (22-23) many claimed all vaccines don't work and germ theory is bunk and nanobots were found (shows odd pics). These claims were paraded around as of every "antivaxxer" believed them or some form of them. In reality most people just wanted informed consent and to not be lied to about safety and efficacy and it is a human rights abuse to fire people for refusing an experimental drug.

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