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I think 'inaccurate' was the key word. I think that's a reasonable barrier.
by BobbyJo 6y ago
I think 'inaccurate' was the key word. I think that's a reasonable barrier.
- young_unixer 6y agoPoliticians, journalists and the general population make inaccurate claims all the time in both pro-lockdown and anti-lockdown stances.
- adamsea 6y agoLuckily as educated adults we are blessed with being able to exercise our judgement to assess what is right, wrong, an honest mistake, a deliberate distortion, a kinda-bad inaccurate claim, or a dangerously-bad inaccurate claim.
- aegis4244 6y agoThe evidence shows that most adults are not all that sharp.
- headmelted 6y agoThis. If we’ve learned anything at all.
- lehi 6y agoBut who is anybody to say what is or isn't accurate.
- yladiz 6y agoFair point, we are in a post-truth society now.
- xienze 6y agoFacebook and Twitter, obviously.
- marshray 6y agoBefore COVID-19, I would have said that we pay for CDC, FDA, Surgeon General, epidemiologists, and virologists to be right about that stuff and they're generally trustworthy. But then they all tried to convince Americans not to wear masks.