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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When the Dear Leaders speaks, the thinking has been done for you.
Fake News goes all the way back to the late 1800’s.
“Do your own research” is a wise idea in most things.
Damn, I get tired of being talked down to by these morons.
In other words: “Stay ignorant and irresponsible”
just listen to we the experts on CNN that care so much for you.
No, it isn't. Especially when that consensus-building comes with a political hammer behind it.
“Don’t Listen to Stelter”
He’s a Quack Gerbilist and an existential threat to your Health.
Lol. It amazes me how bold they are in pushing this agenda. They late literally telling people not to think for themselves.
“Don’t do your own research. Listen to us. We always tell the truth.”
These media people enable mass murderers and deserve the traditional penalty for mass murderers.
Because the average person is simply incapable of finding original source material, reading it, and coming to a conclusion based on what is presented? What a load of hokum. Just wait there will be a huge cry to restrict access to data from such sites as NIH’s National Library of Medicine lest people dare find out things such as why Ivermectin is being used as an antiviral
My apologies for the typo. My thumbs are too fat for this phone keyboard.
Hey, just because we live in the Information Age when all the published scientific papers on COVID have been made freely available to anyone with a few clicks, that doesn’t mean you can rely on anything other than spoonfed DNC-CNN propaganda, plebes!
Because they want to tell you what your opinion is. Btw, didn't the female ditz on MSNBC some time ago say it was their job to tell us what to think?
Four words that are hurting the response: “You can trust us...”
I don’t know about you, but I get all my medical advice from Dr. Brian Stelter, MD.
So CNN is saying, “Don’t worry about doing research. Just trust us. You know we would never lie to you.”
It's like eating food that's pre masticated by someone ELSE...NO THANKS!
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