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No, research isn't inherently advocacy. But it can be advocacy depending on the way you do it - what you include in your studies and what you exclude. What yo
by gozur88 10y ago
No, research isn't inherently advocacy. But it can be advocacy depending on the way you do it - what you include in your studies and what you exclude. What you lump together when you roll up the numbers. And everybody knows this.
It's not that I suspect the truth disagrees with my beliefs - it's that I suspect my tax money is being used to propagandize my fellow citizens in an effort to erode my civil rights.
As to your p.s... 1) you are confused, and 2) people who assume other people are trolling when they meet disagreement aren't doing a good job of defending their own beliefs.
- Retric 10y agogeaserg34234 is a very similar name and 18 hours old that started this thread which is where the trolling assumption came from. 1) you just acknowled NRA has fought against the CDC conducting and then acknowled CDC where conducting research. Which means you acknowledged the NRA was fighting research. You may feel it was biased or that the NRA was in the right or whatnot, but that's a completely separate point that I really don't care about. NRA's job is to support a viewpoint so that's what they are going to do.
- gozur88 10y ago>You may feel it was biased or that the NRA was in the right or whatnot, but that's a completely separate point that I really don't care about. Um... okay. Whether or not the research is biased doesn't matter to you? That's an interesting position. Of what acutal value is biased research? >NRA's job is to support a viewpoint so that's what they are going to do. Yes, and the point was that's not the CDC's job. The day we start supporting the NRA with tax dollars is the day we can hold them up to the same scrutiny.
- Retric 10y agoI really can't get worked up over 0.00006% of the federal budget. That's into fractions of a penny of my annual tax bill. Anyway, the CDC's job is promote public health and they have an office of public policy so advocacy really does fall under their mandate as required by law. Ed: As does Saw Blade Guards oddly enough. Now, you can disagree with that mandate, but nobody was blowing public money on hookers and blow or something.