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These four words are helping spread vaccine misinformation
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Posted on 09/21/2021 10:34:50 AM PDT by MNDude

Four little words — "do your own research" — are hurting the US pandemic response, CNN's chief media correspondent Brian Stelter said on "Reliable Sources" Sunday. And it is having real consequences as personalities from Nicki Minaj to Sean Hannity continue to promote the idea.

Minaj helped raise doubts about Covid-19 vaccines on Twitter last week, claiming she would only get the shots once she'd "done enough research." It may seem like a reasonable, even positive, attitude, and it is a favored talking point echoed by many in the right-wing media. The problem is that most people simply don't know how to do their own research, especially when it comes to understanding the complexities of medical science.

That's because many of the subtle differences between understanding scientific research that is still theoretical versus that which has been tested and widely agreed upon are not well communicated to the public. As new information and new research comes out, the media needs to take that extra step to explain the changing landscape. "Science is a consensus building process," DiResta said. "Not something where we know the facts immediately, the moment that someone wants to be Googling for them."

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To: MNDude

Smart people do their own research. Dim lemmings want you to mindlessly obey. No wonder they are dumbing down education, and reducing standards across the board. An ignorant mass is far easier to control than an educated one.


41 posted on 09/21/2021 10:53:03 AM PDT by vpintheak (Live free, or die!)
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To: Seruzawa

BTTT!!


42 posted on 09/21/2021 10:53:05 AM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation.)
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To: MNDude

Four words:

Free Republic Vax Pimps.

CNN loves you guys. Keep it up.


43 posted on 09/21/2021 10:53:20 AM PDT by P-Marlowe (I got the <ΙΧΘΥΣ>< variant. Catch it. John 3:16)
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To: struggle

or, as Dear Ronald Reagan once sarcastically said, “I’m from the government and i’m here to help.”


44 posted on 09/21/2021 10:54:29 AM PDT by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: Terry L Smith
There are so many posting the evils of the shot, there isn’t room for the truth.

The problem is, so many in the government, in the pharmaceutical companies, the media, and in the scientific fields have be-clowned themselves so much in the past that they've made themselves unreliable with regard to truth.

45 posted on 09/21/2021 10:54:41 AM PDT by IYAS9YAS (There are two kinds of people: Those who can extrapolate from incomplete data.)
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To: MNDude
"The problem is that most people simply don't know how to do their own research, especially when it comes to understanding the complexities of medical science."

That's a complete and deliberate misinterpretation of what people mean when they say "do your own research." They don't mean that you should somehow personally do first-hand medical research, but that you should consider the views of a variety of EXPERTS who HAVE done research, and not simply rely on one or two government sources, particularly when these sources have often been wrong or dishonest.
46 posted on 09/21/2021 10:55:08 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: MNDude
"Science is a consensus building process," DiResta said.

It's pretty much the opposite of that.

47 posted on 09/21/2021 10:56:42 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (China is like the Third Reich. We are Mussolini's Italy. A weaker, Jr partner, good at losing wars.)
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To: MNDude


Trial

48 posted on 09/21/2021 10:56:45 AM PDT by Karl Spooner
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To: MNDude
Science is a consensus building process

The consensus of science at one time was that the earth was flat,

49 posted on 09/21/2021 10:57:39 AM PDT by McBuff (To be, rather than to seem)
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To: MNDude

Doublethink?


50 posted on 09/21/2021 10:58:29 AM PDT by Raycpa
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To: Zathras
“Do your own research” is a wise idea in most things.

Actually in all things medical it is a good idea because people are not clones.

I can take almost any drug and it works fine. Husband can not. Half the time he ends up with undesirable side effects. Some of the side effects can be crippling. So I research every drug they put him on and keep an eye out.

51 posted on 09/21/2021 10:59:26 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (I had my emotional DNA done. Turns out I am a reincarnation of Subadar Prag Tewarri.)
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To: McBuff

Consensus is not part of the scientific method


52 posted on 09/21/2021 10:59:43 AM PDT by 38special (I should've said something earlier)
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To: IYAS9YAS

Agreed. Science is Black and White. Grey areas in science are merely theories, and it is dangerous to make wide-scale decisions on theories.

Look no further than the butter - margarine wars of the 60s and 70s.

Polyunsaturated Fat, anyone?


53 posted on 09/21/2021 11:00:24 AM PDT by beancounter13 (A Republic, if you can keep it.)
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To: MNDude

No, I don’t understand the “complexities of medical science.” But I DO understand and recognize greed, lust for power and control, and political manipulation when I see it. And I see it.


54 posted on 09/21/2021 11:00:31 AM PDT by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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To: All

It’s almost funny that someone thought this was a reasonable article to publish.


55 posted on 09/21/2021 11:00:37 AM PDT by escapefromboston (Free Chauvin)
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To: MNDude

CNN never does research so they don’t want anyone else to. They just want everyone to accept their democrap party propaganda without question.


56 posted on 09/21/2021 11:01:38 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: Raycpa

Research. A relative term. For your average bloke, it is tantamount to typing some words into a box on Google and pressing search. The real information has, for the most part, been scrubbed from the Internet by the usual suspects: Google, Yahoo, Bing, DuckDuckGo, etc., etc.


57 posted on 09/21/2021 11:02:08 AM PDT by KierkegaardMAN (This is the sort of stuff up with which I shall not put!)
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To: McBuff

Actually there was never any consensus that the earth was flat, only that it was the center of the universe.


58 posted on 09/21/2021 11:02:31 AM PDT by meowmeow (In Loving Memory of Our Dear Viking Kitty (1987-2006))
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To: MNDude; All

Sorry if already posted, but there’s another well-known four words on this issue.

Sometimes referred to as caveat emptor, let the buyer beware.


59 posted on 09/21/2021 11:03:14 AM PDT by Amendment10
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To: MNDude

My research points to the fact that Ivermectin is a DEADLY POISON in the Western world, whereas on the separate planet of central Africa, it’s a harmless life-saving essential medication given like candy for free to illiterate African villagers.


60 posted on 09/21/2021 11:05:04 AM PDT by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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