[ExI] it's not? indeed?

[Keith Henson]

On Mon, Jan 22, 2024 at 11:04 AM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
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> ...> On Behalf Of Keith Henson via extropy-chat
> Subject: Re: [ExI] it's not? indeed?
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> >...Can you say specifically how they lied and what damage resulted?
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> >...I can make a case that early CDC pronouncements were wrong and did cause damage, but I can't make a case that it was intentional falsehoods.
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> >...Keith
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> Keith what I saw is that there were obvious efforts to suppress expression of dissenting views on Covid.

Can you be specific about the content of the dissenting views?  One I
know about is that Covid is an influenza virus, which is obviously not
true.

> We saw dissenting views squelched on the internet, labeled disinformation with the implication that disinformation is false information.  Now we know disinformation, misinformation and malinformation might be true.

Please be specific about this accusation.  For a fact, I don't know
how information can be squelched given that anyone can post anything
they want on FB.  Would it be squelched if I posted a claim that
COVID-19 was brought to the US by little green aliens?

>  I am against false information only.  I like true information, even if it is bad news indeed.

Well, bad news regarding COVID-19 would be that China engineered the
virus and released it on their population.  Besides this making no
sense, it is (or at least was) beyond the state of the art at that
time.

> The Science sure took a bad hit over covid.

Science got it wrong with respect to aerosol transmission and it took
about a year to correct.  But other than that one, what other things
would you say are a "bad hit>"

Keith

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