Re:The media's lab leak fiasco
by remarkEon on Thursday May 27, 2021 @08:03PM
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My shit test for "is this article likely a bunch of FUD or just outright BS" is if they actually link to the source material. If they don't, I usually continue reading it but make a mental note that they're likely pushing some specific version of the event or facts in question.
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Re:The media's lab leak fiasco
by christophilus on Friday May 28, 2021 @06:56AM
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It’s challenging to do this without being swayed— particularly if the writer is a good rhetorician. Listening to propaganda over and over again, even while knowing that it is propaganda, tends to influence your opinions. I don’t know what the solution to that is. But it does feel like reading the news requires a mental rigor that is both rare and exhausting.
Someone recommended that I supplement my news reading with newsprint from 20 years ago, just to get perspective on what matters and what doesn’t, and on how full of crap most of it is.
Yeah, no disagreement from me. It's the Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect at scale.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Crichton#GellMannAmnes...