Politifact COVID Fact Checker - ZERO medical experience

[Cow Poke]

Well at least they canned the "Disinformation Board" headed by the Mary Poppins wannabe.

The Ministry of Trooth?

[Sparko]

The Ministry of Trooth?

What an embarrassment that was.

[Cow Poke]

What an embarrassment that was.

Both in person and principle.

[Mountain Man]

"Could", maybe. "Did" requires some evidence.


Yeah, I wonder if it was more than zero.


There were a number of them over the time period in question. None of them was Fauci, though. He was busy directing the NIAID.


You've provided a lot of sources. Which one was that?

The NIAID is the NIH division that deals with infectious diseases, so when we're taking about AIDS and the NIH 's questionable decisions in response to it, we're talking about Fauci the Fraud.

[seanD]

Well at least they canned the "Disinformation Board" headed by the Mary Poppins wannabe.

Not really. We found out they were doing it discreetly through social media. And that was just twitter revelations. We have no idea what they're doing within other social media platforms, but there's no reason to believe it isn't more of the same.

[Mountain Man]

Not really. We found out they were doing it discreetly through social media. And that was just twitter revelations. We have no idea what they're doing within other social media platforms, but there's no reason to believe it isn't more of the same.

Yes, the Misinformation Czar was simply an attempt to put a public face on something that Washington was already doing behind the scenes. I'm not sure why they thought nobody would object if they did it openly. I guess that's just how much of a bubble they're in?

[Stoic]

The NIAID is the NIH division that deals with infectious diseases, so when we're taking about AIDS and the NIH 's questionable decisions in response to it, we're talking about Fauci the Fraud.

Okay, so when you said: "There's also the fact that he approved of testing AIDS drugs on foster children which "exposed a vulnerable population to the risks of medical research and drugs that were known to have serious side effects in adults and for which the safety for children was unknown."

What you really meant was: "There's also the fact that NIAID, while headed by Fauci, provided funds for testing AIDS drugs on foster children, who would have died from AIDS if they hadn't gotten into a study."

[Diogenes]

Okay, so when you said: "There's also the fact that he approved of testing AIDS drugs on foster children which "exposed a vulnerable population to the risks of medical research and drugs that were known to have serious side effects in adults and for which the safety for children was unknown."

What you really meant was: "There's also the fact that NIAID, while headed by Fauci, provided funds for testing AIDS drugs on foster children, who would have died from AIDS if they hadn't gotten into a study."

Fauci's involvement in general with AZT seems more controversial than experimental treatments on effectively terminally ill children.

[Gondwanaland]

Fauci's involvement in general with AZT seems more controversial than experimental treatments on effectively terminally ill children.

And let's not forget how his absurdly wild speculations during the AIDS crisis led to much of the stigma and myths about people with AIDS being able to spread it via close contact.

https://www.yahoo.com/video/video-re...180945365.html

An old video circulating on social media shows Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, warning that even just “close contact” with those already afflicted with AIDS could result in infection.

In the context of a conversation about childhood infections, Fauci speculates that “if the close contact of a child is a household contact, perhaps there will be a certain number of cases of individuals who are just living with and in close contact with someone with AIDS, or at risk of AIDS, who does not necessarily have to have intimate sexual contact or share a needle, but just the ordinary close contact that one sees in normal interpersonal relations.”

[Diogenes]

And let's not forget how his absurdly wild speculations during the AIDS crisis led to much of the stigma and myths about people with AIDS being able to spread it via close contact.

https://www.yahoo.com/video/video-re...180945365.html

Personally I'm not a fan of "close contact" with anyone unless I know them extremely well. I don't accept U=U. I wouldn't disassociate from someone based of disease status, but I would let them know my heath came before theirs in certain situations.

[shunyadragon]

Being a COVID fact checker didn't require medical aptitude, let alone medical experience. Fact checking, in general, merely requires political aptitude.

In fact, medical experience would hinder fact-checking, much like lawyers make poor jurors and doctors poor patients.

This journalism is at best third hand bad sources. Not worthy of fact checking here.

[Diogenes]

This journalism is at best third hand bad sources. Not worthy of fact checking here.

I agree the NYT, PoltiFact, Poltico, and the Wapo are at best third hand bad sources.

[Stoic]

Fauci's involvement in general with AZT seems more controversial than experimental treatments on effectively terminally ill children.

And yet still not very controversial.

[Mountain Man]

And yet still not very controversial.

You don't think anything is controversial as far as your hero Fauci the Fraud is concerned.

[rogue06]

Well at least they canned the "Disinformation Board" headed by the Mary Poppins wannabe.

They're merely allowing other agencies take over various aspects of what it would have done.