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).
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.
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.
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.
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.”)
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…
It is a long interview with the “…I represent science” quote about 3/4 of the way through. It gives a pretty good insight into the trials and tribulations Fauci faced.
My reading of this interview is that your statement is totally wrong. What Fauci is talking about is the current rejection by many Americans of science and data-based methods for identifying truth. Fauci was made the most prominent spokesperson for the majority scientific perspective on the pandemic, a perspective based on the best available data at the time. Therefore, he feels that the vitriolic criticism he is facing, mostly from people with little to no expertise in the relevant fields, is an attack on the credibility of the scientific community.
> “…lies become normalized now, and the social media amplifies the normalisation of lies. So scientists try to say this is the truth, and it’s based on data. That’s what we live by, data, evidence, truth. And then you all of a sudden have permeating in society, it is OK to say anything you want that is patently, obviously wrong. And if you say it long enough and often enough and you get social media involved, then everybody- not everybody, X percent of the population starts believing it. See, that’s what I worry about more than people throwing slings and arrows at me because my whole life has been as a scientist and I identify with the field of health and science. And if you’re attacking me, you’re really attacking science…”
The folks attacking Fauci don’t know him personally, so they aren’t really attacking him. They are attacking what he is saying, and what he is saying is the majority POV of the scientific community.
One final point. There are lots of disagreement between scientists on the details of the pandemic and no one is trying censor or discredit those who oppose the majority POV. The scientific method is alive and well. But that is different from the idiocy going on in social media and the mass media by folks who have no relevant expertise yet are very sure of their opinions. That nonsense is to legitimate criticisms of scientific hypotheses as a mob lynching is to justice.
I heard it straight from the horse’s mouth during a Congressional investigation where he was addressing a hostile interrogation.
Let me repeat, I’m not addressing the science, I’m addressing Fauci’s arrogance, “I’am the science!” When he realized what he had said, he toned it down, “I’m the representative of science.” Followed by, “It’s dangerous to question the representatives of science, it might confuse people” or words to that effect. When asked how much in royalties he was getting from pharmaceutical companies he said that he was not obliged to disclose that information. So much for oversight!
