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Re:Scientists Shouldn’t Debate Gaslighters by shrubble on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @06:42PM (#36425693)
"a controversy surrounding an invitation to prominent vaccine scientist Peter Hotez to debate anti-vax charlatan and spoiler presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr"

Quite the unbiased opening... a close relative of a beloved President, son of a former Attorney General and also candidate for President, is dismissed as a 'spoiler'?

And what would his political stances matter in a question of science?

This is not good journalism...

Re:Scientists Shouldn’t Debate Gaslighters by hackerlight on Wednesday June 21, 2023 @07:30PM (#36426192)
> This is not good journalism...

Quite the opposite, to do good journalism you need to avoid[1]. Reality happens to exists, and science journalists shouldn't pretend otherwise by assuming that every single assertion no matter how outlandish has equal probability of being true.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/False_balance