This is not actually a real thing, journalists and system-trusting liberals are just mad that nobody believes them anymore. They spew just as much bullshit as any other. The amount of work it takes to "debunk" isn't higher at all. The only thing that matters is can you keep people in your bubble to keep them from hearing it.
A better formulation would be >the amount of work it takes to build a reputation is far greater than to ruin it because that's what "big science" and "the media" etc. did. They associated with idiotic misinformation spreaders and never gatekept and now they pay the price. >Guns, Germs and Steel (lies and nonsense) >having no fucking idea what an mRNA is but pushing it regardless ("trust the experts!") >diversity is our strength >gender science list goes on everyone knows already. Now that someone other than mainstream TV in a 10 second soundbite can spread lies they're getting mad.
If you really cared you would get mad regardless. If you really could tell misinfo from real info you could easily debunk it. Journalists lack the requisite intelligence.
@CrustyBurgerhead@collectifission I think it would be really funny to listen to the "unbiased science" potcast and see if they actually spend 6 hours and have 15 citations but that would take more work than it did for them to make that comic 😏
If you spend 5 seconds reading something that's true and someone "debunks" it by spending six hours reading elaborate bullshit written by politically biased morons on one side of the issue then the guy on the left still wins.