@lain@BroDrillard you mean they are too stupid themselves? maybe man. the article mentioned they had to combine level 4 and 5 because there were too few people
@moth_ball@Arkana@Nudhul@nimrod or some things just stay true the romans and greeks said there was a golden age, then a silver age, then the bronze age, then them and they were right. Things have only gotten worse. Remember Atlantis. Hyperborea. Blood memory. :A10: :sonnenrad:
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.
@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 😏
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.
@sickburnbro I actually looked this coal speech up He gave it after imposing tariffs on Japan. Funny how he doesn't even go into detail at all. He just says "The Japs were unfair to us" for some reason. Idiot.
@lain there are fields affected by bad incentives (including physics, math, chem, basically all of them) and there are fields that do not use proper methodology and the people in them don't have the IQ to do science (psych, med, econ etc)
@kilostere@Shadowman311@Xeraser >As a result of Perkins' trading, he was suspended in July 2009. That same month, he joined an alcoholics' rehabilitation programme.[1] In July 2010, two days after the FSA announced the sanctions, Perkins was hired by Starsupply Renewables SA, a Swiss-based biofuels brokerage company, initially to create training manuals for new recruits; Starsupply promised not to allow Perkins to trade for the remainder of his probation. A spokesperson for Starsupply stated that they considered him "a good man who did a stupid thing"
>Biofuels >Ethanol MY MAN WENT STRAIGHT TO THE SOURCE
@IAMAL_PHARIUS@beardalaxy@alyx@LukeAlmighty disappointing normie opinion from you. You cannot bring someone from then back to here so it's obviously a metaphor. If you gave him the same chances that we have today, he'd probably have a better chance at a good immune response than us. The joke was their mental fortitude btw, that humans today are weak and coddled so much that they have forgotten how much potential we once had.
SN: The common cold has not mutated in a way that makes it more aggressive and deadly. It's just different now. That's counterproductive for a virus.