Please, stop posting irrelevant conspiracy nonsense.
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Personally, I actually don’t care if people call Fauci a clown; it makes themselves look stupid, not him.
I also don’t care if his handling of covid is questioned; as a public servant in a role that affected hundreds of millions of lives, it should be open to question, though the bad faith manner in which it is so often done is distasteful.
What I absolutely object to is people using public forums to spread
outright lies, totally absurd junk about Fauci.
People who use TMF to transmit obvious, ridiculous lies about other people should be banned from the site for a few days, then longer as necessary, imho.
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Thank you. That is the alternative phrase I was looking for.
There is no such thing as “settled science.” It is a straw man created by conspiracy theorists. What we have is the current scientific consensus. That consensus can - and does - change as additional evidence is developed.
–Peter
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I agree with your first claim, and with the idea ‘scientific consensus is correct’.
I believe you are mistaken about the idea of ‘settled science’ being a ‘straw man created by conspiracy theorists’.
The term ‘settled science’ was invented by some in the man-made global warming scientific community as a marketing tool to try and make anti-climate change people & the public not question their models.
As a PhD holding scientist I believe the AGW scientist’s models were/are ‘good enough to act upon’, I think AGW is real, and I believe they had good intentions, but I found it wrong and ethically distasteful that they tried to silence any questioning of their models/conclusion with the creation of this political terminology.
They also unleashed a monster by putting this idea out there that science can be decided in such a way it can never be questioned.
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That’s a tough one. I don’t disagree, but I don’t entirely agree, either.
Ignoring stupidity allows that stupidity to appear reasonable to some. “No one is questioning this statement, so it must be right.” That is an approach taken by many. So I don’t think that all lies or stupidity should go unchallenged.
On the other hand, challenging every one of them is a Sisyphean task. One could spend all of their time debunking garbage and it would still never end.
So there has to be some balance - at least on a personal level. I do let many go by. But from time to time I pick one and challenge it. I don’t expect to change the mind of the one posting garbage. But perhaps it will have an impact on someone else reading in the future (whether that future be in the next minutes or years down the road).
–Peter
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Some people think Donald Trump is a clown; some don’t. If we want to allow that conversation in public, I think we have to allow other senior figures.
Defending it or challenging it whenever it shows up is a matter of time and taste. Please, continue doing whatever makes you happy and comfortable!
Fair enough. I picked the wrong set of bad actors based on some earlier comment.
–Peter
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Speaking of which … [see next post]
sparkytwk said:
That’s a funny one. Project Veritas is a right-wing activist organization posing as a news source. They have been caught attempting to plant false stories in other news outlets.
Project Mendacium would be a better name.
–Peter
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I enjoy Veritas once in a while - for a good laugh.
Pete
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Shared drives for top secret data!
My god, the things people believe because they read it on the internet!
Hysterical.
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No more conspiracy theories please. This was meant to be a thread about covid treatment, not any ideas people randomly have about Bill Gates taking over the world or whatever.
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That’s my whole point the only treatment for the coronavirus is the shot all other treatments were buried and covered up, that’s how you know they have evil intent.
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Thank you pete. I saw this post about 1 second after researching O’Keefe as I thought the name sounded familiar. Something about dressing like a pimp about 10-12 years ago to “expose” something at a government office.
Anyway, I don’t see how any of that military paperwork contradicts Fauci’s testimony. If he wasn’t in on it he answered the question factually. He’s not in the military and his name does not appear in the documents as an “operator.” The juxtaposition of facts with the intention to deceive is fraud which is a form of lying. (In business it’s called advertising or “I’m just trying to make a living.”)
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Master, what else would you like to command? I’m at your service, free of charge, Master.
Your Humble Servant
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Master, what else would you like to command? I’m at your service, free of charge, Master.
I’m starting to wonder if TMF might need an age verification filter at sign up
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Happily, the P-box has a Forever option for individuals being foolish… This thread exposed a couple, pretty sad, actually, but, sometimes pruning is beneficial, long term…
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