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I wish this stupid podcast would die already. It's a podcast in which misinformation is spread at a massive scale, under the guise of "I'm just asking questions
by typon 6y ago
I wish this stupid podcast would die already. It's a podcast in which misinformation is spread at a massive scale, under the guise of "I'm just asking questions". The initial quirky, fun nature of this podcast died out a few years ago, and it has been coasting on its past success for the recent past. I wonder who will be the next Joe Rogan?
- RickS 6y agoWhenever I overhear JRE on a subject I know anything about, I'm reminded of Gell-Mann Amnesia: “Briefly stated, the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect is as follows. You open the newspaper to an article on some subject you know well. In Murray’s case, physics. In mine, show business. You read the article and see the journalist has absolutely no understanding of either the facts or the issues. Often, the article is so wrong it actually presents the story backward—reversing cause and effect. I call these the “wet streets cause rain” stories. Paper’s full of them. In any case, you read with exasperation or amusement the multiple errors in a story, and then turn the page to national or international affairs, and read as if the rest of the newspaper was somehow more accurate about Palestine than the baloney you just read. You turn the page, and forget what you know.” – Michael Crichton (1942-2008)
- kgin 6y agoAbsolutely. I both think the "fake news" meme is toxic and yet, at the same time, know that EVERY news article for which I've had personal knowledge of the events that actually took place... the article got it substantially wrong, sometimes inventing whole facts out of thin air.