halpiamaquark

My argument is very simple but you apparently misunderstand.

morgante guessed that I reject fact checking simply if it doesn't confirm my worldview.

I rebutted that the fact checkers in question aren't simply disproving my worldview. Rather they are advancing an opinion-based counter-narrative under the guise of objectivity.

You replied and suggested that I should be held to the same standard as a purported arbiter of truth.

I rebutted that I do not claim to be a sterile, objective source of bald fact-checking. And a major news consumption platform is not appending my opinions to people's feeds and elevating my opinions to objective status. My opinions-masquerading-as-fact won't be advanced by Facebook as evidence of the disreputability of those I disagree with.

You replied incoherently as far as I can tell.

I do not put myself out there as a disinterested arbiter of fact.

Facebook isn't going to be appending my critical analysis to alleged fake news stores.

Let's see some statistical analysis that the fact checkers FB claims are disinterested arbiters of fact aren't in fact pushing an agenda before we go along with censorship maybe.

Politifact and Snopes push their opinionated worldview as though it is objectively true and morally righteous.

The kosher fact checkers list includes the biased and opinion-based Politifact and Snopes.

The warnings may be discredited but the disputed stories will appear lower on the news feed according to FB. "Appear lower" is the least controversial way for FB to dip its toe in this water, so we'll see how the censorship actually plays out.

>That's what electrons, and photons, and neutrons, etc, are. [...] They are bundles of probability amplitudes smeared out over space and time intervals. This is not a metaphor. This is stark reality.

Aren't you describing a representation of atomic particles, not the particles themselves?

Edit: I'm not looking to get into a discussion about what constitutes "existence". I am just wondering if you are conflating a scientific-mathematical model for a thing with the thing itself.