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Critical thinking is only applicable when you encounter a right-wing meme (turn to CNN to get the correct view on the topic), but when the government puts out p

Critical thinking is only applicable when you encounter a right-wing meme (turn to CNN to get the correct view on the topic), but when the government puts out propaganda like "There's no way it was leaked from a lab" when there is a lab next to where the virus leaked, we are not supposed to apply critical thinking and if we do we are banned from social media. We don't need mimetic immunity, we need immunity from just accepting that the media/gov establishment party line and that to call them on their BS is "extremist".

nradov 5y ago
Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, some federal government scientists and administrators did highly unethical things to suppress discussion of the lab leak hypothesis. https://theintercept.com/2022/01/12/covid-origins-fauci-redacted-emails/ https://theintercept.com/2022/01/12/covid-origins-fauci-reda... However the official position of the US federal government is now that a lab leak is possible and hasn't been disproven. https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/reports-publications-2021/item/2263-declassified-assessment-on-covid-19-origins https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/...
darkarmani 5y ago
> we are not supposed to apply critical thinking and if we do we are banned from social media How many people were banned from social media for critical thinking? I'd be willing to bet if anyone was banned, they were actually stating as fact that there was a lab leak and then would bury people with tons of low quality "evidence". Can you link this exact quote from a source: "There's no way it was leaked from a lab"? I don't think anyone reasonable was absolutely certain. Very early on there was an article in Nature saying they didn't believe it could have come from a lab (which i disagreed with).
- pyronik19 5y ago
  I don't have anything handy, and not going to invest time to score internet points. My point isn't who was or was not correct in this instance. My point is that social media making decisions about what is "low quality "evidence"." or making conclusions on who to censor based on "trusted sources" is and labeling everything else as "misinformation" is a terrible precedent and this is just one example of it blowing up in their faces in an obvious way. They are in no better position than me to evaluate what is or is not low quality and I especially don't trust their motives/bias/judgement in the matter. They thing CNN is reliable... I think CNN is garbage. CNN puts out more fake news than anyone. Whether or not it originated out of the lab is almost beside the point, they can't be trusted with this type of universal censorship power because they are often wrong and have an agenda which biases their decisions on the validity of sources.

nradov 5y ago

Early in the COVID-19 pandemic, some federal government scientists and administrators did highly unethical things to suppress discussion of the lab leak hypothesis. https://theintercept.com/2022/01/12/covid-origins-fauci-redacted-emails/ https://theintercept.com/2022/01/12/covid-origins-fauci-reda... However the official position of the US federal government is now that a lab leak is possible and hasn't been disproven. https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/reports-publications-2021/item/2263-declassified-assessment-on-covid-19-origins https://www.dni.gov/index.php/newsroom/reports-publications/...

darkarmani 5y ago

> we are not supposed to apply critical thinking and if we do we are banned from social media How many people were banned from social media for critical thinking? I'd be willing to bet if anyone was banned, they were actually stating as fact that there was a lab leak and then would bury people with tons of low quality "evidence". Can you link this exact quote from a source: "There's no way it was leaked from a lab"? I don't think anyone reasonable was absolutely certain. Very early on there was an article in Nature saying they didn't believe it could have come from a lab (which i disagreed with).

pyronik19 5y ago
I don't have anything handy, and not going to invest time to score internet points. My point isn't who was or was not correct in this instance. My point is that social media making decisions about what is "low quality "evidence"." or making conclusions on who to censor based on "trusted sources" is and labeling everything else as "misinformation" is a terrible precedent and this is just one example of it blowing up in their faces in an obvious way. They are in no better position than me to evaluate what is or is not low quality and I especially don't trust their motives/bias/judgement in the matter. They thing CNN is reliable... I think CNN is garbage. CNN puts out more fake news than anyone. Whether or not it originated out of the lab is almost beside the point, they can't be trusted with this type of universal censorship power because they are often wrong and have an agenda which biases their decisions on the validity of sources.