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   Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (wandereruber@poa.st)'s status on Wednesday, 09-Apr-2025 22:01:45 JST Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer
   Let's go through the "Brandolini's Law" examples on Wikipedia:
   >The persistent false claim that vaccines cause autism is a prime example of Brandolini's law. That famous case involved British doctor Andrew Wakefield, who wrote an article about a study that claimed to find a relationship between the MMR vaccine and autism
   It really isn't. First of all, Wakefield was the LEAD AUTHOR of the study, not just a guy "who wrote an article". So good job fighting misinformation there! Took you one sentence to fuck it up.
   Second, fabricating a whole ass study is *more* work than peer review. If the "soyentific cummunity" had spent only a LITTLE BIT of effort reforming the broken journal model, this fraudulent study would have never gotten that far.
   
   >In another example, shortly after the Boston Marathon bombing, the claim that a student who had survived the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting had been killed by the bombing began to spread across social media. Despite many attempts to debunk the rumor, including an investigation by Snopes, the false story was shared by more than 92,000 people and was covered by major news agencies.
   >major news agencies
   We have spread misinformation and now we can't contain it. How could this be happening? Great job guys, guess it really is worth it to pay 10 journos for fact-checking everything if some facebook bullshit ends up on the evening news still. That college for you all really paid off!
   
   >In an example of Brandolini's law during the COVID-19 pandemic, Jeff Yates, a disinformation journalist at Radio-Canada, said of a very popular YouTube video: "He makes all kinds of different claims. I had to check every single one of them. I had to call relevant experts and talk to them. I had to transcribe those interviews. I had to write a text that is legible and interesting to read. It's madness. It took this guy 15 minutes to make his video and it took me three days to fact-check."
   Reminds me of what you guys do everytime Israel does anything. Just start the clock at the moment the arabs retaliate and pretend "this was the start". The start wasn't a guy "doing a video in 15 minutes" (which also has to be interesting or it will never get 2 Million views btw) The start was you all spouting completely unsupported nonsense for months on end prompting people to look for other sources, falling for some traps in the process. They're supposed to "trust experts" but when a guy pops up that can explain complicated things and actually takes the 15 minutes needed, you cry foul because you were too lazy to do a good explanation in 15 minutes in your evening program yourself
   
   >Nine months after the victory, Icelandic doctor Ásgeir Pétur Thorvaldsson jokingly tweeted out that a baby boom in Iceland had occurred due to this victory. Despite wide media coverage suggesting the truth behind this statement, statistical analysis carried out by curious researchers debunked the notion proposed by Thorvaldsson's tweet.
   Media did it. Again.
   
   Wanderinis law:
   The system constantly lies to people and they aren't competent enough to notice. It takes more effort to make non-mainstream arguments reach people because they censor you.
   
   RT: https://poa.st/objects/b50277b0-ae11-4df9-b010-f5b28a8f46de