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Re:Harvard, Oxford, Stanford doctors among leaders of global... by BobbyJo on Monday October 12, 2020 @01:56PM (#24757283)
I think 'inaccurate' was the key word. I think that's a reasonable barrier.
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Re:Harvard, Oxford, Stanford doctors among leaders of global... by young_unixer on Monday October 12, 2020 @02:12PM (#24757503)
Politicians, journalists and the general population make inaccurate claims all the time in both pro-lockdown and anti-lockdown stances.
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Re:Harvard, Oxford, Stanford doctors among leaders of global... by adamsea on Monday October 12, 2020 @02:18PM (#24757579)
Luckily as educated adults we are blessed with being able to exercise our judgement to assess what is right, wrong, an honest mistake, a deliberate distortion, a kinda-bad inaccurate claim, or a dangerously-bad inaccurate claim.
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Re:Harvard, Oxford, Stanford doctors among leaders of global... by aegis4244 on Monday October 12, 2020 @02:22PM (#24757636)
The evidence shows that most adults are not all that sharp.
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Re:Harvard, Oxford, Stanford doctors among leaders of global... by headmelted on Monday October 12, 2020 @02:42PM (#24757888)
This. If we’ve learned anything at all.
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Re:Harvard, Oxford, Stanford doctors among leaders of global... by lehi on Monday October 12, 2020 @02:19PM (#24757591)
But who is anybody to say what is or isn't accurate.
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Re:Harvard, Oxford, Stanford doctors among leaders of global... by marshray on Monday October 12, 2020 @02:54PM (#24758015)
Before COVID-19, I would have said that we pay for CDC, FDA, Surgeon General, epidemiologists, and virologists to be right about that stuff and they're generally trustworthy.

But then they all tried to convince Americans not to wear masks.

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Re:Harvard, Oxford, Stanford doctors among leaders of global... by yladiz on Monday October 12, 2020 @02:37PM (#24757828)
Fair point, we are in a post-truth society now.
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Re:Harvard, Oxford, Stanford doctors among leaders of global... by xienze on Monday October 12, 2020 @02:52PM (#24757992)
Facebook and Twitter, obviously.
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