When I see “the FDA has stated…” I automatically think it is probably a corrupt conclusion bought by some powerplayer to maximize their own profit instead of having to do with whether the statement is true or not. I’ve always viewed FDA as basically a council of a bunch of power players on boards of Big Capitalism companies like Pepsi that make decisions based on control and market share rather than health.
but I see posts now about how trump attacking FDA equals bad. So is my view of FDA wrong? Are they noncorrupt? Are they a necessary evil? Should they be thrown in a volcano and remade?
I think you’re confusing “false dichotomy” with “question”. You could argue this if they were talking more in depth about the organisation. But that’s not what’s happening here
A question framed as having a only two possible answers is a dichotomous question, and if the answer doesn’t fit that framing then the framing is false. It’s the wrong question to ask.
Ahh, I don’t think the question is to be taken that literally. And if you look around in the responses, you see plenty of people with more nuanced answers.
However, you can still have an opinion about the overall organisation regardless of the nuance.
Thats how writing works.
It’d be meritable if that person were six to eight years old.
Oy, I’m the autistic one here. Why am I explaining to you not to take things too literally :p
you’re the one who would raise a smart child :)
the people you are speaking against would have children that stop asking questions after the first few times they are hurt by doing so.
good job being a good person :)
It is not “hurting children” to help them understand their underlying assumptions.
Yeah, that’s kind of a crucial part of critical thinking, and can absolutely be done without shutting the kid up… You can critically analyze the question with them without discouraging asking questions
I apologize in advance if I’m unclear or misstate something, I’m trying to paraphrase/summarize a complex explanation I was given by a licensed psychiatrist. It may not be intended as harm, and it may not be physical harm, but not all brains work the same way. ADHD brains, for example, have a significant disordering of the pathways between the pre-frontal cortex (your “filter” or maybe you’ve heard the term “executive functioning”) and the amygdala (your “fight/flight/freeze” survival response) which makes it difficult or impossible accept criticism, regardless of how constructive that criticism is. And when that criticism comes from the people who are supposed to be the trusted adults and role-models in your life it’s hard for those brains to take it as anything other than “these adults who are supposed to care for me are all hurting me every day for reasons that I don’t understand. It must be something is fundamentally broken inside me”. The “damage” comes much later in life from not getting the benefit of developing confidence, self-image, emotional vulnerability, etc etc. So I understand your response also but try to keep in mind that not everyone was born into this world with the same neurological defense mechanisms that allow most people to function day to day.
Thank you!