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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Well maybe because the historical record is on the side of those suspicious of another rushed US Govt pushed vaccination process.
So rather then screaming hysteria at everyone who questions the Jab propagnda, maybe the lying media should start doing some real research.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-shadow-1976-swine-flu-vaccine-fiasco-180961994/
Will be damned if these absolute slithering slobbering MORONS at clinton news network or central intel noose network— will lump me and very many millions of highly educated and critical thinking individual with the LUMPEN masses who first do not think at all and second, hang on the words of an “authority” like this fat f Brian Rosylips pudge butt Stelter!
Quote: “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.”
News Item Stelter: SCIENCE HAS NEVER BEEN ABOUT CONSENSUS- EVER! Science is the repeat testing of a hypothesis by different groups/researchers using the same methodology to PROVE THE HYPOTHESIS.
Number 1: the hypothesis that COVID “vaccines” are truly vaccines and not gene remodeling therapeutics which do NOT prevent infection (ie the def. of a true vaccine) HAS BEEN DISPROVEN already many times throughout the world.
So- uh, Brian bozo- you got that wrong before you ever opened your mouth-— no surprise for a slimy propagandist.
damn if that doesn’t smell like fear...
So called "news" has always been fake news, through all of time.
The idea that the news industry has some duty to objectivity and truth is a self-serving myth ginned up by the news industry in the 1920's, around the advent of passive news, radio.
Walter Lippmann is the face of the myth.
Thank you for this quote from the genius, Michael Crichton, MD.
My post later defined science as definitely NOT consensus, and never has been.
Excellent post.
do not think for yourselves. it is verbotten in a tyranny.
Truth is truth.
It doesn’t matter what the consensus is.
Tyranny works so much better if everybody obeys and doesn’t question authority.
CNN would love for that to apply to everything.
Don’t research COVID.
Don’t research Politicians.
Don’t research Finances.
In fact no one should research anything because CNN is here to explain everything our small minds need to know.
It has electrolytes.
//sarcasm and Idiocracy reference.
Indeed. Theres plenty of research that conflicts with the common narratives. Just because its not the mainstream medias or the leftist governments versions of facts certainly doesn’t make it misinformation.
Have a debate...thats the best way,right? Your facts vs. mine and let people decide.
Instead you get censorship and vilification of dissenters ,which makes most rational folks say.... somethings not quite right if were silencing debate.
People still wonder why Americans dont trust their govt
The phlogiston theory was once the scientific consensus.
Pretty much all of today’s accepted science was once either the minority view or so far removed from the paradigm of the time as to be virtually inconceivable.
“It’s our job to tell you what to think.”
Sit back and we will do your research for you, say our betters in government and media. What, you ask, is in Soylent Green?
How about:
“You can trust us”?
Yes, the left prefers the words, “Shut up and do as you are told without questioning, peasants.”
Something CNN knows little about
“Science is a consensus building process,”
which indicates a complete misunderstanding of science. Science is not taking votes. Plenty of times in actual science the accepted wisdom was one thing but the truth was something else. Often the truth was suppressed in favor of the accepted wisdom.
I remember when “speak truth to power” was a thing. I guess looking into things on your own and then telling “the power” to get stuffed is no longer in fashion.
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