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https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/foundation-for-economic-education https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/foundation-for-economic-educa... also, see notes: According to

by onyva 6y ago

https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/foundation-for-economic-education https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/foundation-for-economic-educa... also, see notes: According to the left-leaning watchdog Sourcewatch, Fee has connections to the Koch Brothers. Further, the Least Biased Public Integrity also ties this organization to the Koch Bothers via funding.

aww_dang 6y ago
Can you relate the bias you perceive to untrustworthy or disingenuous claims in the content of the article? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy
- onyva 6y ago
  The Media Bias fast checker are tracking sites for disinformation. There's a bias. So read it taking that bias into account.
  - aww_dang 6y ago
    We should be able to digest information without epistemological hand holding. I've found that most fact check sites have an agenda of their own. A common technique is to misattribute or deliberately misinterpret a claim and then debunk the strawman. https://www.factcheck.org/2016/09/trump-pence-acid-wash-facts/ https://www.factcheck.org/2016/09/trump-pence-acid-wash-fact... >"Donald Trump falsely claimed Clinton “acid washed” 33,000 personal emails ... Clinton’s tech team used BleachBit, which is a free software program. It does not use chemicals."
    - onyva 6y ago
      You "found"? Stats, research notes, facts, data? ... opinions are not facts. About your selective and misleading choice of fact checked, you know very well it's about the "acid wash" claim, and not about what the republicans did. You don't need a fact checker to know what Trump said about Hilary and the mail server, nor why it was used and perused so relentlessnesly.
      - aww_dang 6y ago
        Nor have you demonstrated that 'fact check' sites are without bias. I've provided a quote and a link to one of the more memorable instances of what I found to be disingenuous fact checking. I'm not sure what else you can expect in this context?
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- microtherion 6y ago
  The article keeps cherry picking particularly hard hit countries as a comparison to Sweden, instead of e.g. its closest neighbors Denmark (comparable hit to GDP, less than 20% of the deaths) or Finland (smaller hit to GDP, less than 15% of the deaths). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/10545332/2-14082020-AP-EN.pdf/7f30c3cf-b2c9-98ad-3451-17fed0230b57 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/10545332/2-1... And as for Stockholm being "on the verge of herd immunity", the Swedish Bikini Immunologist Team predicted the same in April: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/22/no-lockdown-in-sweden-but-stockholm-could-see-herd-immunity-in-weeks.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/22/no-lockdown-in-sweden-but-st...

by onyva 6y ago

aww_dang 6y ago

Can you relate the bias you perceive to untrustworthy or disingenuous claims in the content of the article? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Association_fallacy

onyva 6y ago
The Media Bias fast checker are tracking sites for disinformation. There's a bias. So read it taking that bias into account.
- aww_dang 6y ago
  We should be able to digest information without epistemological hand holding. I've found that most fact check sites have an agenda of their own. A common technique is to misattribute or deliberately misinterpret a claim and then debunk the strawman. https://www.factcheck.org/2016/09/trump-pence-acid-wash-facts/ https://www.factcheck.org/2016/09/trump-pence-acid-wash-fact... >"Donald Trump falsely claimed Clinton “acid washed” 33,000 personal emails ... Clinton’s tech team used BleachBit, which is a free software program. It does not use chemicals."
  - onyva 6y ago
    You "found"? Stats, research notes, facts, data? ... opinions are not facts. About your selective and misleading choice of fact checked, you know very well it's about the "acid wash" claim, and not about what the republicans did. You don't need a fact checker to know what Trump said about Hilary and the mail server, nor why it was used and perused so relentlessnesly.
    - aww_dang 6y ago
      Nor have you demonstrated that 'fact check' sites are without bias. I've provided a quote and a link to one of the more memorable instances of what I found to be disingenuous fact checking. I'm not sure what else you can expect in this context?
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microtherion 6y ago
The article keeps cherry picking particularly hard hit countries as a comparison to Sweden, instead of e.g. its closest neighbors Denmark (comparable hit to GDP, less than 20% of the deaths) or Finland (smaller hit to GDP, less than 15% of the deaths). https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/10545332/2-14082020-AP-EN.pdf/7f30c3cf-b2c9-98ad-3451-17fed0230b57 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/documents/2995521/10545332/2-1... And as for Stockholm being "on the verge of herd immunity", the Swedish Bikini Immunologist Team predicted the same in April: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/22/no-lockdown-in-sweden-but-stockholm-could-see-herd-immunity-in-weeks.html https://www.cnbc.com/2020/04/22/no-lockdown-in-sweden-but-st...