So what’s new in DuhSantistan?

Yeah, I think this is correct. So much 'objective' journalism is premised on taking all sides of any issue seriously, even when one side might be nonsense or completely unsupported by fact. In many cases, that sort of results in a dumbing down effect, or an abdication of responsibility to report something clearly. I think media literacy is an important skill, especially in today's world.

 

Your article is interesting and very on point with the TH crowd. Noteworthy is a point that shows how higher intelligence and stronger understanding of issues important to us, actually makes us more polarized.
These effects are not reduced by intelligence, access to information, or education. Indeed, greater scientific literacy and mathematical ability have been shown to actually increase polarization on scientific issues that have been politicized, such as the cause of climate change or the benefits of gun control.
Higher ability in these areas appears to boost people’s ability to interpret the available evidence in favor of their preferred conclusions.

 

Mitt Romney has been fact checked 208 times. Thanks for contributing to the discussion proving Politifact is far left leaning. We can keep going if you want LOL. Too easy.

 

DeSantis: screw the families, I’ve got a presidency to win!

 

I'm not an anti-vaxxer at all. I'm anti vax for kids who are healthy. That was stupid. Also we had data from Europe showing schools weren't a more dangerous place for covid spread than the surrounding community. This was purely a play by the teachers unions for a money grab. You are trying revisionist history.

 

Good question. I take most of what I read with a heavy grain of salt.

 

Nope. Not even close. I've shown the data. Your explanation doesn't explain the increase in R's getting fact checked compared to D's. Not difficult to figure out unless you don't want to know the answer.

 

Yeah, they were spot on saying the lab leak was a lie LOL.

 

LOL. Yeah, only one side plays loose with the facts LOL.

 

LOL. Almost zero healthy kids died from covid. The vaccine doesn't help kids that much especially after 3 months. And somehow you forgot to mention that the vaccine itself causes more myocarditis cases especially in boys. So yeah, healthy kids didn't need to be vaccinated.

Europe isn't a head scratcher unless you choose to ignore the data. But sure, keep making up stuff. Par for the course.

 

Cute that you think only one side plays loose with the facts. Tells me all i need to know about you. Too funny. Some people are so partisan and they love being partisan more than being correct.

 

What’s so bad about being an “anti-vaxxer”?

It’s just saying you reject potentially harmful medical interventions for fictitious diseases.

It’s just the modern version of saying leave out eye of newt, we don’t need that.

 

It’s seems a reasonable conclusion, but once adopted it obviously doesn’t leave us in a very strong position to say much with authority.

 

I think the issue is that this take is that it equates your personal beliefs and knowledge. Clearly this isn’t a tenable solution to our problem, as no two of us share the exact same personal beliefs. Therefore, these beliefs cannot all be entered in our canon of knowledge.

As Charles Sanders Peirce so keenly noted over a century ago:

“It will appear that individualism and falsity are one and the same. In the meantime we know that man is not whole as long as he is single, that he is essentially a possible member of society. Especially one man’s experience is nothing. If he sees what others cannot, we call it hallucination. It is not ‘my’ experience but ‘our’ experience that needs to be thought of; and this ‘us’ has indefinite possibilities.”

 

Smallpox? Measels? Polio?

 

Potentially risky pharmaceutical interventions for blistering phenomena ?