"Fact Check"

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  1. Lil Mike

    Lil Mike Well-Known Member

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    Always listen to the experts.

    Fact check: Coronavirus vaccine could come this year, Trump says. Experts say he needs a 'miracle' to be right.

    President Donald Trump has suggested multiple times that a coronavirus vaccine could come within months, an accelerated timeline that prominent health experts and veteran vaccine developers say is unlikely absent a miracle.

    "We're looking to get it by the end of the year if we can, maybe before," Trump said Friday during in a Rose Garden event centered on his administration's efforts to fast-track a vaccine.

    “Vaccine work is looking VERY promising, before end of year,” Trump tweeted on Thursday.



    Not so fast say the experts!

    But experts say that the development, testing and production of a vaccine for the public is still at least 12 to 18 months off, and that anything less would be a medical miracle.

    It seems to me that we need another fact check into this "miracle." Did a supernatural event occur?
     
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    The functions of "fact-check" news media is multifaceted in my view: D.J. Triple-P.

    1. Discredit skeptics
    2. Justify lack of additional reporting on an issue by citing prior reporting
    3. Present a meta-news media apparatus (a sort of news above the news, to judge all others)
    4. Promote a desired consensus on a given topic while erasing half the story
    5. Provide a digital scythe with which skeptics from #1 are to be incessantly cut down, be it on social media, in academia, or even in politics at the highest level.

    And it just so happens that former NSA chiefs and intel agency officials are behind these organizations. People are being conditioned to embrace authoritative consensus now more than ever, and "fact-checks" are the latest improvement to that agenda.

    >noooooo but you're literally saying that facts don't matter?!

    Have you investigated these "fact-checking" articles? All fallacious and omissive half-truths and dishonest framing of events. They are basically news media's tool which is used to push you away from new information.
     
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