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Not sure why people downvote posts like the parent. It’s a legitimate concern, given Fox’s well-documented, even engineered and policy-based, science-negative a
by alanh 16y ago
Not sure why people downvote posts like the parent. It’s a legitimate concern, given Fox’s well-documented, even engineered and policy-based, science-negative and ratings-over-truth slant.
Would the comment be downvoted if it said “The Sun” instead of Fox News? Fox is hardly a tabloid but it’s certainly not Nature.
- mquander 16y agoI downvoted it because coming through Fox News or The Sun has no impact on its credibility, since Fox News is not the primary source. Fox News is just parroting and simplifying something scientific-sounding, like they would do for any similar scientific-sounding thing. The findings do not seem particularly credible, but it has nothing to do with Fox.
- nolite 16y ago"Fox News is just parroting and simplifying something scientific-sounding, like they would do for any similar scientific-sounding thing." umm.. this is EXACTLY my point
- mquander 16y agoComing from Fox News certainly doesn't make it much more credible. But I don't think it makes it less credible, either. You should figure out whether it's credible based on other evidence. If you think that coming from Fox News "kills all credibility" of something then you are going to disbelieve many true things.
- guns 16y agoWRT to alien life, FOX has an established reputation: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_autopsy#Alien_Autopsy:_Fact_or_Fiction http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alien_autopsy#Alien_Autopsy:_Fa... I can still remember my father sitting me down and explaining to me how this was going to change _everything_ about our understanding of the universe. While my father should have exercised more incredulity, it was pretty irresponsible of FOX to pump the damn program for as much attention as possible.