Politifact COVID Fact Checker - ZERO medical experience

[Stoic]

There's a somewhat interesting video over on YouTube that shows Dr. Campbell morphing over the course of about two years from staunchly pro-vax, pro-approved-narrative to about as skeptical as he can be without being deplatformed.

Sounds like he has figured out which opinions will make him the most money.

[Stoic]

We have certainly seen how things "fact checked" as wrong a year ago are now absolutely true.

Cool. I was hoping someone here would have some examples.

[Cow Poke]

Sounds like he has figured out which opinions will make him the most money.

A fact checker will be along shortly to deal with this post.

[Sparko]

Indeed. The media aggressively promotes the idea that their "fact checkers" are the final word on whether or not something is true or false, and it doesn't seem to bother them in the least how often they get things blatantly wrong.

You can argue with another person who you think is wrong, but you can't argue with a "fact checker" when they are wrong.

[Sparko]

That's an argument that a fact-checker should be unbiased, not that he should have specialized knowledge of the subject of the fact-check.

If you are trying to convince conspiracy theorists that they have their facts about COVID vaccines wrong do you think people would listen more to some journalist or an actual medical expert?

[Darth Executor]

If you are trying to convince conspiracy theorists that they have their facts about COVID vaccines wrong do you think people would listen more to some journalist or an actual medical expert?

Alex Berenson says hello.

[Stoic]

If you are trying to convince conspiracy theorists that they have their facts about COVID vaccines wrong do you think people would listen more to some journalist or an actual medical expert?

There is no reason the journalist can't quote medical experts.

[seanD]

If you are trying to convince conspiracy theorists that they have their facts about COVID vaccines wrong do you think people would listen more to some journalist or an actual medical expert?

I don't think that's the objective of a "fact checker." Their objective is not to try and convince a "conspiracy theorist" of anything, but to serve as gatekeepers so that your typical normie out there who doesn't know much about the subject or have time to research it gets the establishment narrative information and not information from a "conspiracy theorist." Since the establishment doesn't engage in conspiracies, according to them, any narrative based on a conspiracy is the erroneous narrative.

[Sparko]

I don't think that's the objective of a "fact checker." Their objective is not to try and convince a "conspiracy theorist" of anything, but to serve as gatekeepers so that your typical normie out there who doesn't know much about the subject or have time to research it gets the establishment narrative information and not information from a "conspiracy theorist." Since the establishment doesn't engage in conspiracies, according to them, any narrative based on a conspiracy is the erroneous narrative.

Yeah you are right. The conspiracy theorist is already convinced and any fact check no matter who it is from would just be part of the conspiracy.

[seanD]

Yeah you are right. The conspiracy theorist is already convinced and any fact check no matter who it is from would just be part of the conspiracy.

Or it's that most people that research a lot and don't fall into the normie category are aware that the "fact checkers" are often bias (and I would add even outright deceptive in how they use semantics in some cases).

[Cow Poke]

There is no reason the journalist can't quote medical experts.

Which medical experts?

[Stoic]

Which medical experts?

I guess that would depend on the fact being checked.

[Gondwanaland]

Have you even listened to NPR? it is full of nutcases. If you actually listen to it and are endorsing it you are so far left there is no-one to the left of you

That's a bit harsh. NPR certainly leans left, but they're not looney left (unless all you listen to is the "1A" show). They're certainly not on the level of crazy leftist as, say, The Young Turks (which is one of Starlight's news sources IIRC).

[Gondwanaland]

Sounds like he has figured out which opinions will make him the most money.

One could say that about Fauci...... and climate alarmists.....

[Stoic]

One could say that about Fauci...... and climate alarmists.....

I don't see any reason to believe that Fauci's opinions were influenced by a chance to make more money. (If he really wanted to make more money, he could have left government decades ago.)

As for climate alarmists, I suspect more money is made by climate change deniers.