The media's lab leak fiasco

Re:The media's lab leak fiasco by generalizations on Thursday May 27, 2021 @05:29PM (#27308790)

There were even videos of chinese scientists trying to get the word out about the virus and the lab leak liklihood. There was plenty of evidence, if you knew where to look.

'Evidence' is tangential to the decision making behind misinformation tags.

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Re:The media's lab leak fiasco by kristofferR on Thursday May 27, 2021 @06:21PM (#27309306)

The problem is that "evidence" is pretty easy to find. Even the wildest conspiracy theories has pages and pages of links to their evidence.

Who should evaluate the evidence for its credibility?

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Re:The media's lab leak fiasco by generalizations on Thursday May 27, 2021 @06:41PM (#27309489)

Is that a serious question? Here's a better one:

Who has the right to tell others what they may, and may not, decide for themselves?

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Re:The media's lab leak fiasco by deepnotderp on Thursday May 27, 2021 @07:06PM (#27309721)

> Who should evaluate the evidence for its credibility?

Why the Ministry of Truth of course

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Re:The media's lab leak fiasco by pupdogg on Thursday May 27, 2021 @07:52PM (#27310079)

I don’t have an answer to that but it most certainly should NOT be New York Times, Business Insider, WAPO, FactCheckXYZ, etc style publications.

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Re:The media's lab leak fiasco by andybak on Friday May 28, 2021 @05:46AM (#27313414)

Wait. You've just excluded a bunch of stuff without even hinting what you're in favour of. For all we know, you might think it should be Alex Jones.

Don't do this. It's hand-waving and people can read all kinds of things into it.

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