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Thank you for your comment! It strikes to the heart of why, just this morning, my wife and I were discussing our collapse in confidence in the medical profession, in general.

How could a thinking, somewhat knowledgable person, trust the medical profession since it has and still is promoting the widespread use of a so called vaccine, now proven to be potentially lethal? Rhetorical, I know. They could not.

BTW, I too can't, based on my personal experience, buy into this "study" from Canada. It sounds like hogwash, to me. I suspect the study group, if there really was one may have been quite small and/or cherry-picked. However, I do realize we are living in times quite different from my coming-of-age (I'm 68) and I do encounter a lot of people who don't seem to be "wired" correctly. All I have to go on is my frame of reference and an occasional peek outside the box. So I could be the one full of hogwash.

I know, based on what I was taught in mortuary school, that atheists are most often college educated or have advanced degrees, and I know from personal observation that they are usually left-leaning politically and socially, and are quite well spoken.

I'm of a group (high school drop-outs) who are probably more likely to be clods when it comes to command of the language, but because of having worked in various jobs dealing directly with the public for over 50 years, I have a reasonable command of the English language, and thanks in large part to spell-check, manage to write in a somewhat intelligible fashion.

I don't know if that makes sense or not. I suppose I'm trying to say: "You can't judge a book by it's cover."

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You make sense, no need to ask for confirmation. A degree issued by crackpot institutions are meaningless and having a level of command with language has little if anything at all to do with receiving a degree (confirmation from other). University is about the biggest scam in culture today. MOST of the exceedingly intelligent people I've come across are not indoctrinated by college training.. It is actually an inverse signal as far as I'm concerned. Self taught people are proof of true intelligence. They find their own path, and that takes something else beyond and more consequential than plane intelligence. You might call it the "x" factor. That x factor calls bullshit and is the best navigation system on the planet. Props to dads who shed this life intelligence naturally onto their children by doing instead of talking.

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Like! My like button does not work, for some reason.

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I don't buy into it either. Peterson is a mixed bag. He preaches things that are useful and work. But Jesus, what a know-it-all. He thinks he has all the answers, yet can't stay off drugs.

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