Not long ago, Johns Hopkins surgeon Marty Makary published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal which downplayed many of the worst case scenarios for Covid and projected natural herd immunity by April. This article was widely shared via social media like Facebook, who reacted by unleashing the fact checking commissars. This latest WSJ article looks at how leftist social media outlets are doing their best to ensure that debate gives way to dogma.
“…the progressive health clerisy don’t like his projection because they worry it could lead to fewer virus restrictions. The horror! Health Feedback’s fact checkers disagree with the evidence Dr. Makary cites as well as how he interprets it. Fine. Scientists disagree all the time. Much of conventional health wisdom about red meat, sodium and cardiovascular risk is still fiercely debated.
The same goes for Covid-19. There’s still much we don’t understand about the virus and its transmission and immunity. Yet Facebook’s fact-checkers “cherry-pick,” to borrow their word, studies to support their own opinions, which they present as fact.”
“Scientists often disagree over how to interpret evidence. Debate is how ideas are tested and arguments are refined. But Facebook’s fact checkers are presenting their opinions as fact and seeking to silence other scientists whose views challenge their own.”
There is actual “science” and then, there is “political science”
ALWAYS with “solutions in search of a problem”.
There is also “social science”. Science has as much to do with social science as a chair with an electric chair.
Ya well,,,,(yawn),,,, the same thing has been happening with glowball warming for the last 30 years.
You don’t know it’s true until it has been officially denied.
The Ministry of Truth!
>Ahem< Mr. O'Brian would like to see you in Room 101. NOW!
related?
https://notthebee.com/article/fact-check-true
Fact checking,seems to be a repeat from the past.
Witchfinder.
Step one ;Appoint yourself the authority.
Step 2 :Sell yourself to the gullible.
Step 3;Savagely attack and cripple all who laugh at your “expertise”.
Just as the Witchfinder could find Witches everywhere..Especially in independent women who disrespected its imaginary skills..Or resisted its power tripping.
So the “Fact Checker” can find deviations from the Sacred Narrative to be “Falsehoods”..
Which of course is everything that mocks the narrative.
Who watches the watchers?
As soon as some nobody appoints themselves the sole deviner of the truth,we need to Dox them totally.
And mock them mercilessly until they depart.
When the media has to be fact checked by the reader, it should be no surprise their so-called facts checkers are anything but.
Related:
FB is following the MSM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bxI803q6i8
SCIENCE = biases tested.
SOCIAL SCIENCE = biases asserted,