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> Let's take a look then. Firstly, is it replicable? It's a survey of public statements by politicians, are you under the false belief that every white paper i

• mike_hearn 2y ago
  It's a paper by people who get paid by the government because they claim to be doing political science: that is, studying politics and society in a neutral, scientific way to obtain generalizable conclusions. They present what they claim is a novel finding, in fact they say that "little is known of the relationship between party politics and the spread of misinformation" and that their paper addresses this problem. In this case one of the authors is funded by my local government yet they claim at the bottom of their article they received no funding to do this work, so that's yet more misinformation and it's my money being used for this, which is pretty irritating. If they wanted to write a personal politics blog there's Substack. They aren't: they're pretending to be scientists, like in tens of thousands of other papers out there on the same topic.