>If you learn how to use photoshop then you’re unlikely to relearn GIMP.
We currently see something related to this in the Pharmaceutical industry. There are a lot of statisticians/programmers that learn R or python in university, while most large-pharma companies are using SAS. There is a movement within the industry to pivot or try to pivot to R due to the scarcity of SAS programmers or/and the cost of teaching new employees a new programming language.
If SAS would have more accessible trainings/certifications I am sure R would never even be considered.
As someone who works in pharma currently, I have seen the same. The pharmacovigilance unit does search the internet/social media for AE's, off-label use, etc (depending on region). Secondly every single person in the company also needs to report events when they see/hear/read them. So not having that social-media department wouldn't be doing much, not all thousands of employees can/will/want to avoid social media.
I work in the privacy field. I can tell you that after GDPR the multi national I work for has become a lot more careful/aware about data privacy. We went from collect everything and just store it, to actually having limitation of data collected and how long they are stored.
For climate change, if someone links a fake study that comes to the right conclusion, you can still call them out for it. If they bring up some statistics you can still ask where they come from, and see if they are generated in a valid way. If someone asks you shouldn't link them other studies.
There is nothing wrong with asking how we can know some specific source is truthful or not. So far no one has answered my actual questions.
>There is absolutely 0% chance at the end the vaccine will not be approved.
That's not true, I think it's foolish to 100% trust a company to not make any rushed mistakes, lie, or hide some facts, when there are massive amounts of money involved.
And compared to most other countries the US overton window is still very right on economics and foreign policy. Socialised health care, or economically left wing politics are still not mainstream and acceptable. Anything other than pure capitalism is called socialist, and socialist/communist is a term that can be career death for a politician.
>realize that personal liberties, sovereignty and privacy are important to the "west"
I think that Snowden showed us that this is not actually true. Things like National Security letters and the PATRIOT act make the US to me, as a European, seem very hypocritical right now.
Also, the fine (if we are talking about the Danish one) was not for collecting a phone number. It was for retaining it after the retention limit (in this case 2 years, and they kept them for 5 years) without a good cause. The company argued they were and essential part of the database. People love to make GDPR look bad, but it's often not as bad as it looks from a one line summary.
We currently see something related to this in the Pharmaceutical industry. There are a lot of statisticians/programmers that learn R or python in university, while most large-pharma companies are using SAS. There is a movement within the industry to pivot or try to pivot to R due to the scarcity of SAS programmers or/and the cost of teaching new employees a new programming language.
If SAS would have more accessible trainings/certifications I am sure R would never even be considered.