{"id":1612,"date":"2021-09-08T12:53:03","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T12:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/?p=1612"},"modified":"2021-09-08T14:55:36","modified_gmt":"2021-09-08T14:55:36","slug":"dont-believe-anything-you-hear","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/2021\/09\/08\/dont-believe-anything-you-hear\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t believe anything you hear"},"content":{"rendered":"

Joe Rogan is upset at CNN’s Jim Acosta<\/a> for claiming he took “horse dewormer.” The implication is that Rogan heard some conspiracy theory, went down to Tractor Supply and self medicated. <\/p>\n

Rogan says he got the medicine from a doctor. <\/p>\n

Ivermectin is not approved by the FDA as a treatment for Covid, but it is approved for human use for other things, and it’s my understanding that doctors often prescribe a medicine that’s used for one thing to treat something else. (I’m not promoting Ivermectin or anything else. If you have a medical issue, talk to your doctor.) <\/p>\n

Now someone might say “what Acosta said is true. Ivermectin is also used as a horse dewormer.” Sure. It’s true in some aspergery \/ asshole sort of way. And warfarin is also rat poison, so would it be fair for a news guy to say that somebody was taking rat poison? As if he just went to the hardware store and bought rat poison because he read some stupid article on the Internet? <\/p>\n

Acosta — like so many other people in the media — is a partisan liar. His goal is not to inform, but to infect and inflame. <\/p>\n

It’s come to the point (actually we’re well past the point) that you should never believe anything you hear in the media until it’s confirmed by multiple sources on opposite sides of the partisan divide. <\/p>\n

Somewhat along these lines, a professional friend posted a link to this article: Facebook posts from misinformation sources get 6 times more engagement than reputable news sites, new study says<\/a> <\/p>\n

I commented as follows. <\/p>\n

This article highlights three things that seem incredibly obvious to me.<\/p>\n

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  1. People are more engaged by fake news. It tickles the ears and scratches where people itch. Truth isn’t so accommodating.\n
  2. Any system \/ structure that crowdsources news is going to promote more and more fake news.\n
  3. Systems that crowdsource news are not in the public interest. <\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Joe Rogan is upset at CNN’s Jim Acosta for claiming he took “horse dewormer.” The implication is that Rogan heard some conspiracy theory, went down to Tractor Supply and self medicated. Rogan says he got the medicine from a doctor. Ivermectin is not approved by the FDA as a treatment for Covid, but it is … Continue reading “Don’t believe anything you hear”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1612"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1616,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1612\/revisions\/1616"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crowhill.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}