Thanks for the detailed response to yet another dodgy ‘fact check’. It seems that a major purpose of ‘fact checking’ is to cast official doubt on any concerns that manage to run the gauntlet of restrictions (even censorship) in accessible media.
If fact checkers exercised the same level of diligence in addressing the continuing barrage of information from official sources or drug marketers to get vaccinated, boosted or masked, it is possible that they may become worth watching or reading, as at least they might then look impartial.
At present, however, it is unlikely that they will be interpreted as impartial, and more likely that they will be recognised merely as a form of advertising. While this might be seen as a new phenomenon of some kind worthy of study, and some of us might be puzzled - even amused - that so many seem reassured by the fact checkers, the long-term risks to public understanding of science or trust in public institutions would seem to me to be immense.
The Covid nightmare has destroyed much more than our health.
Thanks for the detailed response to yet another dodgy ‘fact check’. It seems that a major purpose of ‘fact checking’ is to cast official doubt on any concerns that manage to run the gauntlet of restrictions (even censorship) in accessible media.
If fact checkers exercised the same level of diligence in addressing the continuing barrage of information from official sources or drug marketers to get vaccinated, boosted or masked, it is possible that they may become worth watching or reading, as at least they might then look impartial.
At present, however, it is unlikely that they will be interpreted as impartial, and more likely that they will be recognised merely as a form of advertising. While this might be seen as a new phenomenon of some kind worthy of study, and some of us might be puzzled - even amused - that so many seem reassured by the fact checkers, the long-term risks to public understanding of science or trust in public institutions would seem to me to be immense.
The Covid nightmare has destroyed much more than our health.
Factcheckers are gaslighting arsonists that deliberately obfuscate facts with fictionalized misleading information.