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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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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.
BTTT!!
Four words:
Free Republic Vax Pimps.
CNN loves you guys. Keep it up.
or, as Dear Ronald Reagan once sarcastically said, “I’m from the government and i’m here to help.”
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.
It's pretty much the opposite of that.
The consensus of science at one time was that the earth was flat,
Doublethink?
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.
Consensus is not part of the scientific method
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?
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.
It’s almost funny that someone thought this was a reasonable article to publish.
CNN never does research so they don’t want anyone else to. They just want everyone to accept their democrap party propaganda without question.
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.
Actually there was never any consensus that the earth was flat, only that it was the center of the universe.
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.
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.
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