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Re:The media's lab leak fiasco by hermitdev on Friday May 28, 2021 @02:49AM (#27312450)
This was an interesting read, but I think there's something missed with fact-checkers. They seem to be caught in a strict binary of true and false when there's often a third possibility: we do not have the necessary information to either prove or disprove a claim/statement.
Re:The media's lab leak fiasco by lhnz on Friday May 28, 2021 @04:35AM (#27313040)
The other issue is that they fail to categorise their "opponents" arguments into strong and weak claims.

So you often end up with articles arguing against strawmen, where the strawmen is considered to be the only view held by the other side. This isn't really useful.