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What's wrong with asking questions about the competence (and honesty) of experts and "the media"?
by leereeves 5y ago
What's wrong with asking questions about the competence (and honesty) of experts and "the media"?
- nzealand 5y agoNothing is wrong with a good-faith question asked out of an honest curiosity. Have you looked at which countries were identified as high risk back in April 16 2020? https://www.newsfirst.lk/2020/04/16/sri-lanka-ranked-16th-among-high-risk-countries-for-covid-19/ https://www.newsfirst.lk/2020/04/16/sri-lanka-ranked-16th-am... Then compared it to actual deaths? https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deaths-worldwide-per-million-inhabitants/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...
- lovegoblin 5y agoAsking questions is obviously fine. "Just asking questions" is a specific bad-faith rhetorical tactic: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions