Glossary entry (derived from question below)
English term or phrase:
unthinking habit
French translation:
automatisme
Added to glossary by
Paul Hirsh
Feb 7, 2006 15:42
18 yrs ago
English term
unthinking habit
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Q: If vaccines actually do harm, why are they given?
A: First of all, there is no "if". They do harm. It becomes a more difficult question to decide whether they do harm in those people who seem to show no harm. Then you are dealing with the kind of research which should be done, but isn't. Researchers should be probing to discover a kind of map, or flow chart, which shows exactly what vaccines do in the body from the moment they enter. This research has not been done. As to why they are given, we could sit here for two days and discuss all the reasons.
As you've said many times, at different layers of the system people have their motives: money, fear of losing a job, the desire to win brownie points, prestige, awards, promotion, misguided idealism, unthinking habit, and so on...
A: First of all, there is no "if". They do harm. It becomes a more difficult question to decide whether they do harm in those people who seem to show no harm. Then you are dealing with the kind of research which should be done, but isn't. Researchers should be probing to discover a kind of map, or flow chart, which shows exactly what vaccines do in the body from the moment they enter. This research has not been done. As to why they are given, we could sit here for two days and discuss all the reasons.
As you've said many times, at different layers of the system people have their motives: money, fear of losing a job, the desire to win brownie points, prestige, awards, promotion, misguided idealism, unthinking habit, and so on...
Proposed translations
(French)
3 +1 | coutume irreflechi, automatisme coutumier | Paul Hirsh |
4 +2 | habitudes aveugles | sporran |
4 | paresse intellectuelle? | Nicolas Coyer (X) |
4 | inertie | Hélène Lévesque |
3 | manque de réflexion | Tradesca (X) |
Proposed translations
+1
3 hrs
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coutume irreflechi, automatisme coutumier
voyons
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Comment: "va pour automatisme ! merci"
7 mins
paresse intellectuelle?
C'est ce qui me vient à l'esprit. Les autres contextes disponibles sur Internet semblent le confirmer.
+2
28 mins
habitudes aveugles
une suggestion!
Peer comment(s):
agree |
RHELLER
: ou habitudes inconscientes?
1 hr
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merci Rita:-)
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agree |
Jacques Desnoyers
1 day 2 hrs
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merci Jacques :-)
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58 mins
manque de réflexion
1 day 10 hrs
inertie
J'ai parfois entendu parler d'"inertie intellectuelle".
Il me semble que l'on pourrait utiliser cette expression dans ce contexte.
Il me semble que l'on pourrait utiliser cette expression dans ce contexte.
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