Re:The “misinformation problem” seems like misinformation
by UncleOxidant on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @11:52AM
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Yes, this. John Green mentioned in his vlog several months ago that he was not going to be answering antivax objections anymore because doing so was becoming a fulltime job and he has other work to do. This is the burden that deliberate misinformation is trying to impose: flood the zone with factual-seeming counter information, provide "data" (generally cherry-picked or out of context) to back it up and demand that it must be addressed. This is the antivax playbook. At it's worst flooding the zone with misinformation is designed to cause the populace to tire of the debate and give up trying to determine what the actual truth is.
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Re:The “misinformation problem” seems like misinformation
by tstrimple on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @08:09PM
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> flood the zone with factual-seeming counter information, provide "data" (generally cherry-picked or out of context) to back it up and demand that it must be addressed.
This is also referred to as Gish Gallop and relies heavily on the bullshit asymmetry principle.
Re:The “misinformation problem” seems like misinformation
by UncleOxidant on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @08:33PM
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"named it after American creationist Duane Gish and argued that Gish used the technique frequently when challenging the scientific fact of evolution."
Interesting that there seems to be a lot of overlap between creationists and antivaxers. Creationists seem to buy into a sort of conspiratorial view of science where they claim that their "creation scientists" are purposely ignored by mainstream science which is in the grip of some kind of delusion so that they can't comprehend that creationism is the way or are in fact actively trying to subvert the idea that creationism is actually true. Extrapolate to vaccines and they easily believe that there's some kind of alternative science that hasn't been corrupted, but isn't widely known. Similar overlaps for denying climate change.