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> Is there a fully objective way to share this news? Of course not - the very act of publishing an article about church transmission is political - looking for
by II2II 6y ago
> Is there a fully objective way to share this news? Of course not - the very act of publishing an article about church transmission is political - looking for that data was a result of bias.
There are several ways to be objective about it. One is to write an article about the spread of covid in social gatherings, and include church gatherings as part of that piece. Another is to put the data into context, quantitatively. Yet another is to avoid the use of charged words, phrases, or examples. That article was designed to be political, so that is how it ended up.
I'm not saying that you could write an article that everyone agreed was apolitical. Heck, if an evidence based article was written about the roundness of the Earth, someone would find a way to politicize it. Yet an article can be written that most people would agree is factual and avoids bias.