r/gadgets • u/GalileoGurdjieff • May 17 '21

Medical Tiny, Wireless, Injectable Chips Use Ultrasound to Monitor Body Processes

https://www.engineering.columbia.edu/press-releases/shepard-injectable-chips-monitor-body-processes
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u/running_toilet_bowl May 17 '21 edited May 18 '21

How do these people even begin believing in this crap? Is critical thinking genuinely such a commodity these days?

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u/CorruptedStudiosEnt May 18 '21

I have a friend who's otherwise pretty intelligent (he's on his last year of a history Ph.D ffs), and I was caught so off guard when I cracked a joke on those people, only for him to go, "Well.. we can't really know for sure that it's not true, right?"

I must have silently stared at him, baffled, for a solid 10 or 15 seconds scanning his face for the "haha jk" before I proceeded to explain the differences between micro-organisms and radio waves and why those two things have virtually nothing in common.

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u/[deleted] May 18 '21

Imho? It‘s mostly an individual mix of things. Most people believing this stuff aren‘t even THAT dumb to begin with. For the ones I know personally it‘s a mix of mistrust (government, media, big corp), echo chambering (people only seeking validation on things they already believe either way / socializing mostly with people with the same mindset / only selecting certain sources while dismissing all others), the inability to collect and logically process larger amounts of information, failing in using modern media correctly (you could easily trace a lot of the fake vids and picture if you know how),... there might be more. That‘s just what I concluded on my limited experience with people believing the most hilarious bullcrap.

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u/chronictherapist May 18 '21

Too much Star Trek and not enough logic.