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"memory holed" is a reference to 1984. 'guscost appears to believe that epidemiologists eradicate evidence of their theories and simulation results in a manner

• edmundsauto 6y ago
  Instead of active malice to rewrite the truth, can't this just be explained by "people forget over time as new information overwrites old"? Maybe one model for our attention spans is a FIFO queue, organized per topic. That model can't always work, however - we also know that people's first impressions will continue to be strongly held for quite a bit of time. EG, once a news story is published, retractions lack the same impact. What other possible explanations are there? I think it's worth considering alternatives, as it seems clear there are multiple relevant ways of looking at the problem.
  • guscost 6y ago
    > What other possible explanations are there? Corruption. Individual journalists may not have the active intent to do harm with every editorial decision, but there is no way the pattern of things that are “amplified” or “remembered” vs “forgotten” is an accident.