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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“do your own research” ...????
Effin Klowns.
Just look at CDC information and numbers. The news organizations isn’t helpful.
CNN is telling everyone to “GET BACK ON THE PLANTATION!”
Sorry CNN, you are less than worthless.
Too much researchin’ going on out dere
> Four little words... <
Boy, did I get that wrong! I was sure those four words were going to be “Fauci is an idiot.”
Brian Stelter can’t even talk down to a retarded snail.
I have watched this whole business, with no information available for long term effects, as they had done in the past.
Being in dialysis treatment, I took the shots, so as to not be denied treatment. As of yet, I am not zomboid.
There are so many posting the evils of the shot, there isn’t room for the truth.
I don’t think you got it wrong...
Yes, yes...do not educate yourself. Do not become familiar with the science. Do not learn the vocabulary. Just do as you’re told. We know best. Anything else, even if true, is a lie.
These seven little words constantly spread misinformation
CNN: “the most trusted name in news”
Saw this awhile ago:
CNN: “if it didn’t happen, and we say that it did, then it did. If it did happen, and we say that it didn’t, then it didn’t.”
Random control trials are not the be all and end all of showing whether a treatment is valid or should be tried. Clinical observation by a physician is valid. Providing treatment based on research theoreticals is valid (How do they think legit off label usage is arrived at?). Embracing a multiple prong attack against the virus using available information both from personal observation and research by others is valid and probably the best approach.
The attempts to restrict the flow of information because it might cause people to make up their own minds about their own health care should alarm everyone.
The 3 most harmful words are “it was on google”
This is XiNN.
4 most harmful
No concern for “informed consent”.
What is the truth?
When I first saw this mentioned, I thought it was satire.
They are literally saying “don’t think for yourself”
Actually, what is hurting it more than anything is an administration of, by, and for pathological liars like Fauci, Biden, etc.
I want to pause here and talk about this notion of consensus, and the rise of what has been called consensus science. I regard consensus science as an extremely pernicious development that ought to be stopped cold in its tracks. Historically, the claim of consensus has been the first refuge of scoundrels; it is a way to avoid debate by claiming that the matter is already settled. Whenever you hear the consensus of scientists agrees on something or other, reach for your wallet, because you’re being had.Dr. Michael Crichton said.Let’s be clear: the work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.
There is no such thing as consensus science. If it’s consensus, it isn’t science. If it’s science, it isn’t consensus. Period.
Yeah, don’t do your own research. Just listen to the most trusted name in fake news.
Even some of the local news have now crowned themselves fact checkers. So sit back and believe what you are told sheep.
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