[gorgonzolachz]

I think this hits at the heart of the issue though - you don't get to, as a public figure, decide whether or not you are "the voice of a movement". In mass media today, influencers and other people of note who don't have advanced degrees should be doing their research - from credible sources - so they're not spouting inaccuracies and falsehoods to their followers.

Joe Rogan doesn't need to do these things if he's just "hanging out with his buddies smoke'n" but he also doesn't have an obligation to have provocateurs and hacks like robert malone or ben shapiro on his show. He does it because he knows his fanbase will listen to it, ingest the information, and then speak it as fact to their friends and family - and THAT is where the danger comes in. Furthermore, he also knows that parts of his fanbase will go wild to see their fringe views espoused by a guest on their favorite podcast, without Joe challenging them to back their claims up with facts. I'm sure he also knows that his listeners skew young and male, and impressionable young men have been radicalized to a dangerous degree on the internet. Having the same views on his podcast as conspiracy theory sites, for example, will undoubtedly make it easier for the bad actors running these sites to radicalize JRE listeners (who will then, of course, become a part of the fanbase that loves when their theories are given time on his show in some perverse feedback loop).

He has also inked a deal with the largest music streaming service in the world for more money than any of us will see in our entire lives - at that point I don't think you can even say he's just "hanging out" any more. It's facetious at best, and wilfully negligent at worst, to assume that no one thinks of him as an authority figure, because even if he's playing the everyman character his guests profess to be authority figures in their fields. If he doesn't seriously challenge their false claims or ask for evidence from credible sources, he's doing his listeners a disservice.

[gjsman-1000]

I don't trust Joe Rogan any more than I do any news media about the pandemic. The media has made countless mistakes, he's made his own mistakes, but at least Joe Rogan is willing to somewhat own his mistakes while the media never has. For that reason, I don't care.

Also, on that note, "provocateurs and hacks"? The journal Nature, about as authoritative as you can get, has this to say about Malone:

"In late 1987, Robert Malone performed a landmark experiment. He mixed strands of messenger RNA with droplets of fat, to create a kind of molecular stew. Human cells bathed in this genetic gumbo absorbed the mRNA, and began producing proteins from it. Realizing that this discovery might have far-reaching potential in medicine, Malone, a graduate student at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla, California, later jotted down some notes, which he signed and dated. If cells could create proteins from mRNA delivered into them, he wrote on 11 January 1988, it might be possible to 'treat RNA as a drug'. Another member of the Salk lab signed the notes, too, for posterity. Later that year, Malone’s experiments showed that frog embryos absorbed such mRNA2. It was the first time anyone had used fatty droplets to ease mRNA’s passage into a living organism."

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-021-02483-w

So, he did (according to Nature) help invent mRNA, but he's a hack because he disagrees with the "scientific consensus" or something. Reasonable minds can differ on that.

[avemg]

It’s curious that you pit Joe Rogan singularly against “the media”. Joe Rogan has owned up to mistakes but the entirety of “the media” never has? Nobody in the media has ever owned up to a mistake? Joe Rogan is not a member of the media? What is the definition of the media here? People you dislike/disagree with?

[gjsman-1000]

In the US, the "media" is slang for the news. CNN, FOX, MSNBC, ABC, talking head news commentators, so forth. All the ones that supposedly don't spread misinformation. Except for FOX from the CNN and MSNBC viewers perspective, and CNN and MSNBC from the FOX viewers perspective.

[chmod775]

> Except for FOX from the CNN and MSNBC viewers perspective, and CNN and MSNBC from the FOX viewers perspective.

Outside perspective: They're clearly all heavily pushing agendas that are only very thinly veiled as news, in between the actual news.

The US hardly has any objective reporting because any attempt at doing so has to weather a lot of shit from every direction and because such reporting just doesn't do as well. The left-leaning and "centrist" news love to lie by omission (just look at the Rittenhouse trial: nobody who actually saw the full trial would have been surprised by the result), while the right-leaning news tend to exaggerate and outright make shit up (for examples look no further than reporting on the BLM protests). Both do a fair amount of cherry-picking what to report on.

It's like people don't actually want news, but instead want to have their views confirmed. The only places on this globe that manage to actually have some semi-objective TV news do so because it is ingrained in their very culture to value those and because of unconditional (government) funding. And even there news have issues - because it's still only people deciding what to report on and how.

Having programmes that the whole political spectrum can watch goes a long way towards having a dialogue and finding common ground.

In any event this deplatforming needs to stop. It's just about the most effective way to polarize a society by forcing everyone on separate platforms.

[Chris2048]

> The left-leaning and "centrist" news love to lie by omission (just look at the Rittenhouse trial..

or lie by lying: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=29774315

I also would let left-media (which I consider to be the majority) off the hook as not "exaggerate[ing] and outright mak[ing] shit up":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/January_2019_Lincoln_Memorial_...

Insurrection cop was hit on head (and killed) with fire extinguisher: https://greenwald.substack.com/p/the-false-and-exaggerated-c...

There's also a lot of dodgy terminology too, like Trump "putting children in cages" which is a "right-style" (think of the children) provocation not dissimilar to anti-Semitic or witch-hunting misrepresentations.

[pydry]

It's not a reflection of what American people want. It's a reflection of the thoughts of two camps of American oligarchs.

People want news but people are the product more than the customer.

[mr_toad]

> The Washington Post has now retracted dozens of articles, rewritten huge parts of stories, and basically admitted it was all a sham.

A couple of posts back you said that the media never admits their mistakes.

[gjsman-1000]

Washington Post did, but didn't do any broad announcement - but rather, worked on silently rewriting history for anyone who went back and looked. CNN and MSNBC have never admitted errors.

[ncallaway]

> CNN and MSNBC have never admitted errors.

That's just plain false.

CNN has issued numerous retractions, some quite high profile.

For example:

https://www.wired.com/1998/07/cnn-retraction/

> CNN chief Tom Johnson said in an on-air statement that CNN alone bears responsibility for the "serious faults" in TV reports and the related article in Time magazine. He said an internal investigation concluded that the claims could not be supported. He apologized to CNN viewers, Time staffers, and American military personnel.

or

https://www.latimes.com/business/hollywood/la-fi-ct-cnn-resi...

> CNN removed the story and all connecting links to it late Friday, saying the story did not meet its editorial standards. CNN also issued an apology to Scaramucci, who accepted it with a tweet on Saturday. “Everyone makes mistakes,” he wrote. “Moving on.”

or

https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/28/trump-lawrence-odo...

> “Last night on this show I discussed information that wasn't ready for reporting,“ O‘Donnell said at the top of his show Wednesday night. “I did not go through the rigorous verification and standards process here at MSNBC before repeating what I heard from my source. Had it gone through that process I would not have been permitted to report it. I should not have said it on air or posted it on Twitter. I was wrong to do so.“

> “Tonight we are retracting the story,” he added. “We don‘t know whether the information is inaccurate. But the fact is, we do know it wasn‘t ready for broadcast, and for that I apologize.“

or

https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/msnbc-apologizes...

> MSNBC apologized for using “not factually accurate” maps in a segment discussing the violence that has erupted across Israel in recent weeks.

> “MSNBC Live” host Kate Snow acknowledged Monday that her show displayed maps describing present-day Israel as a Palestinian state in 1946, when the area was under British mandate rule. The series of maps shown last Thursday gave the impression that Palestinians had control over all of modern-day Israel and have continuously lost land since.

> “[I]n an attempt to talk about the context for the current turmoil in the Middle East, we showed a series of maps of the changing geography in that region,” Snow said. “We realized after we went off the air the maps were not factually accurate and we regret using them.”

I eagerly await your retraction of that false claim.

[DonHopkins]

That's a false claim. Do you retract it or not?

[ipaddr]

Joe is a talkshow host. Not part of the press but his guests make the news other stations report on. He is letterman or Tom Green. Are they some form media.. sure.

If you changed the all encompassing word media to press the difference is clear

[honkycat]

Joe Rogan has a huge viewership. Him being a "talkshow host" is side-stepping the issue.

I'm sure Tucker Carlson ( who Joe Rogan DWARFS in terms of audience ) would also describe himself as a "talkshow host" ( legally he has to, since his show is for "entertainment value" only. )

[ipaddr]

Yes he is. Why is this a surprise. So is Don Lemon, Cuomo and Cooper. They share opinions not facts.

[UncleMeat]

Malone did valuable and important research decades ago. But today he is far far far far more famous for being vocally critical of mRNA vaccines, in opposition to the bulk of researchers working today. He has done this without engaging with the scientific community in the ordinary fashion and made a name for himself for being "silenced." That's a hack.

Plenty of scientists do great work in one topic and then also act like hacks at other times.

[edmcnulty101]

Some people view Fauci through this same lens.

[beerandt]

I don't know why you're being downvoted. Fauci made his political name pushing for a public policy response to AIDS that looks extremely similar to what he's rolled out against covid.

Yet it's been decried ever since as a mistake being based on fear rather than science, pushing stigma on segments of population in the name of compliance, and being so "overly cautious" that the damages (medical and social) far outweighed the benefits, even with its limited implementation.

Why does that sound so familiar?

[edmcnulty101]

The down votes are part of the whole cancel culture aspect of any critical thinking about COVID.

History repeats itself.

Medical tyranny and cancel culture is just one form and the latest form of tyranny.

[jmcgough]

There are plenty of bright people who convince themselves of something that's crazy and unsupported by evidence. It's classic confirmation bias.

Linus Pauling was one of the founders of molecular biology and spent part of his later life advocating that people megadose vitamin c to cure heart disease, something that could have very well hurt people who chose that over a more evidence-backed treatment.

Steve Jobs tried treating his cancer through juice cleanses until it became too late-stage to treat conventionally.

Malone really should not be given a platform. We know that being unvaccinated can make covid way more severe and puts you at 14x higher risk of death from covid, and there is a huge body of evidence on covid vaccine efficacy from the literal billions of people worldwide who have been vaccinated.

People will almost certainly die because he lends credibility to anti-vaccination arguments.

[edmcnulty101]

Malone is vaccinated. He's against vaccine mandates.

The surpreme court seems to agree with Malone as well.

Should the surpreme court be deplatformed?

[jmcgough]

Does the supreme court have a justice who gives interviews on hugely popular podcasts about why vaccines are dangerous?

[beerandt]

It doesn't need popularity to make its decrees accepted or even believed: they are by definition the controlling law of the land. Whether you read their opinions or not.

You think government enforceable law is less important or does "less damage" than voluntary viewing an expert with an opinion?

[edmcnulty101]

Maybe the reason the podcast is so popular is because there's some truth to it.

Your views may not be as accurate as you believe.

[gorgonzolachz]

You don't need to trust him, but I think you're making a false equivalency there. The reason Joe Rogan apologizes, is that some of his takes are WILD. The whole thing about the wildfires last year being set by left-wing activists was a truly insane statement, and I have no idea where he found that information or what possessed him to say it on his show.

On the other hand, the media generally doesn't make ridiculous pie-in-the-sky takes. Every once in a while they get it wrong (sometimes dangerously so) but not with anything near the same magnitude or frequency that a comparatively uneducated influencer does. And they do apologize, for small inaccuracies with an editor's note at the bottom and for large inaccuracies with a retraction published in the next edition of the paper. Newspapers HATE printing retractions, and they try very hard never to say something that would require it.

Joe rogan has no such compunctions - in fact, he's on the same playbook as so many influencers and provocateurs before him. If you say enough crazy stuff, and only apologize for the worst of it, people are eventually going to give up trying to get you to denounce any statements you've made which are only mildly crazy. Here's a great example [0] - Joe apparently said you shouldn't worry about taking the vaccine if you're young and healthy, and when he apologized he called himself a moron and said he was talking about OTHER people. That's insane: getting vaccinated regardless of age means a brush with covid is less severe, thus saving you a trip to the hospital - and a hospital bed is saved for someone who actually needs it (covid-related or not).

I empathize with your apathy, but I would strongly urge you to think about the difference between a news corporation that hires professional fact-checkers to confirm their articles and has a two-source policy on news, and a guy who wilfully admits he's a moron before continuing to spout potentially harmful views against vaccinating yourself during a pandemic.

[0]https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/joe-rogan-retracts-cor...

Edit: whoops, you edited your comment after I started to reply to you. I'll make this brief: Robert Malone may have invented mRNA vaccines, but he's still anti-vax and believes the vaccines made from his technology (or some derivative thereof) make covid worse. On his episode of JRE he said something called "mass formation psychosis" existed, and had something to do with COVID(?!?) which is a bald-faced lie. You can be an excellent scientist on the frontier of medical research and still be an idiot who has no business spreading your personal views. If Joe had fact-checked him, his opinions would have folded, but he didn't.

[s1artibartfast]

>On his episode of JRE he said something called "mass formation psychosis" existed, and had something to do with COVID(?!?) which is a bald-faced lie.

Mass formation psychosis is a thing that does exist. It just means shared delusion. Psychologists steer clear of religion, but if you are atheist, beliefs in Gods would be a good example.

It basically just means erroneous groupthink. It absolutely has something to do with COVID, but people obviously argue over which side is delusional, or at least more delusional.

[beerandt]

North Koreans believe that running the fan at night will make you sick and might kill you.

It's all a govt delusion to reduce power consumption at night, including blackouts in the name of "public safety".

Not picking on them, because Americans have way more delusional thinking when it comes to things like food safety, but its hard to use a delusion as an example/ proof to the deluded that... they're deluded.

[maskil]

Your first and third paragraph contradict each other

[ByteJockey]

That first line (the one that starts with ">") is indicating that they are quoting someone else. It is not their statement.

[s1artibartfast]

How so?

[CryptoPunk]

>>On his episode of JRE he said something called "mass formation psychosis" existed, and had something to do with COVID(?!?) which is a bald-faced lie.

It's not a lie. It's arguably unsubstantiated. The response to COVID, like shutting down schools for two years [1] to the enormous detriment of education [2], has been insane in its disproportionateness, and the claim that a type of mass hysteria is responsible is totally within the realm of the plausible, and the contra is certainly not the kind of clear cut fact that can justify calling the position a "bald-faced lie".

Classifying everything that opposes a particular agenda as the kind of indisputable lie that has no place being aired on any platform, is the path to a totalitarian society that censors views that are out of favor with the establishment.

[1] https://www.unicef.org/press-releases/schools-more-168-milli...

[2] https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/public-and-social-sector...

[naasking]

> Joe apparently said you shouldn't worry about taking the vaccine if you're young and healthy, and when he apologized he called himself a moron and said he was talking about OTHER people. That's insane: getting vaccinated regardless of age means a brush with covid is less severe

It's actually not insane at all:

https://vinayprasadmdmph.substack.com/p/uk-now-reports-myoca...

What's insane is calling such statements insane when the evidence isn't yet there to reach such a conclusion.

> On the other hand, the media generally doesn't make ridiculous pie-in-the-sky takes.

I have to disagree with this too. A lot of takes on Trump were pretty ridiculous. He's probably among the worst Presidents ever, but the blatant exaggerations during the Trump years were ridiculous.

[emmelaich]

> The whole thing about the wildfires last year being set by left-wing activists was a truly insane statement

Right or wrong, it was most definitely NOT insane: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/19/us/california-wildfires-g...

[darkarmani]

Where does it say that the accused was a left-wing activist? If we find out he is registered as a republican does it mean it was set by a right-wing activist?

[emmelaich]

It doesn't mention his political affiliation. Doesn't matter, it's not insane to consider he might be. Anyway there are numerous other arsonists.

NY Times article: https://archive.md/I1TXF

[gjsman-1000]

You clearly forgot about Russiagate. The claim that Trump was colluding with Russia was all over the news for over a year with constant coverage every day. The Washington Post has now retracted dozens of articles, rewritten huge parts of stories, and basically admitted it was all a sham.

That was a huge, huge pie-in-the-sky take. The media is absolutely not above their own lunacy. Green Greenwald, the reporter who broke the news about Snowden, agreed that it was "this generation's WMDs in terms of media malfeasance."

https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1459242600179933190

My point is that the media is absolutely capable of getting things immensely wrong on incredible magnitude.

[HWR_14]

> The Washington Post has now retracted dozens of articles, rewritten huge parts of stories, and basically admitted it was all a sham.

To my knowledge it hasn't. I believe they continue to stand by their reporting. It's possible I missed a major retraction but I have no clue why they would have retracted their stories.

[refurb]

Go and Google Matt Taibbi’s summary of all the new articles about Russiagate that were wrong and/or have been retracted. It’s quite lengthy with all the sources.

Here it is: https://taibbi.substack.com/p/aaugh-a-brief-list-of-official...

Most if not all the Russiagate claims have turned out to be false, but more critically, the media who reported them either willfully didn’t bother to validate the information or ran with it knowing it was false.

The best one was the FBI getting a search warrant based on an article by a reporter referencing an FBI source. How’s that for bullshit? Drop an anonymous tip to a reporter then use their article as proof your suspicion is valid.

[HWR_14]

Your source uses the word "correction" once (in searchable text), #18, about the detail of whether the Republican opposition research into Trump actually hired Steele, when (according to your own source) instead they hired the firm that hired Steele, but he didn't actually join the project until Clinton took over payment. It's good that it got corrected, but it's hardly something significant.

Your source uses the word "warrant" in one section (in searchable text), #12, where the reporting was accurate in that warrants had been issued. Whether the warrant should have been issued is a different question.

You'll note I qualified searchable, because I have no desire to read the entire massive text of bullet points, although I did try to find relevant ones and your best example. I did try to scan it for other corrections (because this site believes in "text in screenshots), and they were all either minor [0] of they were correct reporting [1].

[0] Example: All 17 intelligence agencies didn't say X, only the agency who coordinates information between, oversees and synthesizes their information did (and the big three of CIA, FBI and NSA)

[1] Example: Report on Day X, Government investigating Y. Report on Day X + N, Government investigation into Y turns up Z. Sometimes the Z is "nothing". You know, or the warrant reporting example above.

[zapita]

> You clearly forgot about Russiagate. The claim that Trump was colluding with Russia was all over the news for over a year with constant coverage every day.

That coverage was accurate. There was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

It is clearly described here for example: https://home.treasury.gov/news/press-releases/jy0126

> The Washington Post has now retracted dozens of articles, rewritten huge parts of stories, and basically admitted it was all a sham.

This is false and you provide no evidence for it.

> Green Greenwald, the reporter who broke the news about Snowden, agreed that it was "this generation's WMDs in terms of media malfeasance."

Greenwald is a disgraced journalist turned professional provocateur. I’m not surprised that you have to resort to quoting him to support an argument as ridiculous as “Russiagate was pie-in-the-sky”. You might as well quote Tucker Carlson.

> https://twitter.com/ggreenwald/status/1459242600179933190

This references two Washington Post articles which have been corrected. The correction was specific to the identity of one source in the famous Steele dossier which made some of the more outlandish and salacious claims in the dossier. There is no other retraction. In particular none of the facts of the dossier are retracted. In any case, the FBI has since conducted their own investigation and published their findings. As far as I know the FBI has not retracted those findings and the press has not retracted any reporting on those findings. So what exactly are you talking about when you mention “dozens of retracted stories”? Where is your evidence?

[gjsman-1000]

https://taibbi.substack.com/p/aaugh-a-brief-list-of-official...

[Chris2048]

> Greenwald is a disgraced journalist turned professional provocateur.

Says who? He's unpopular (with the media), now he attacks the media; what gets to decide he's "disgraced"?

[zapita]

I regret using the term “disgraced” because it’s hard to assess objectively as you point out, and superfluous to my argument, which is that 1) he is wrong in those quoted tweets, and 2) he is a polarizing figure who is not known for his objectivity and therefore, quoting his factually wrong statement as only evidence does not support the argument presented here.

[tanseydavid]

Conflating Glen Greenwald and Tucker Carlson: wow I am just speechless at this.

I guess one thing these two do have in common is that you do not like them.

[mcphage]

> That was a huge, huge pie-in-the-sky take.

The President’s son is on record saying he was interested in getting info from Russia. If Trump didn’t collaborate, it wasn’t from lack of interest or effort. It was wrong, but not a pie-in-the-sky take.

[GauntletWizard]

There is a huge difference between a candidate "Getting information from Russia" [1] and coordinating on election misinformation campaigns with Russian Intelligence agencies.

[1] which provably did happen, except it was the Hillary Campaign that knowingly did so: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steele_dossier

[Cycl0ps]

Have you reviewed the article you linked? The Steele Dossier was compiled by a British source, and the one claim that's generally agreed on is that the Russian Govt highly favored Trump over Hillary. I'd recommend the summary to get aquatinted, then the subsection "Risk of contamination with Russian disinformation considered"

[joyeuse6701]

He’s a hack (pun intended) for other reasons, namely using the above credentials to obtain a greater credibility than he deserves.

[gjsman-1000]

So you think Fauci, Berx, they deserve more credibility than the original inventor? I trust the inventor more than the followers.

[acdha]

He wasn’t “the original inventor”. He’s one of many, many people who worked in the field (very early on) and has subsequently shown that he’s no longer willing to practice science by promoting antivax propaganda and offering patients false hope over ineffective treatments.

Fauci is far more credible because he’s talking about what many hundreds of researchers have confirmed. When he’s talking about vaccines, he’s not just making things up but summarizing peer reviewed studies which have been extensively analyzed. Malone now avoids the scientific process because he knows that his claims aren’t rigorous enough to survive it, and he can profit by telling people that’s censorship rather than admitting inadequacy.

[gjsman-1000]

A. He has over a dozen patents on mRNA-related technologies. He was the first person to get the ball rolling, and is credited as the inventor by Nature, so this is not a made-up title.

B. Fauci has had every position on every issue throughout the pandemic. No masks, then masks. No vaccine mandate, then vaccine mandate. Don't mask the children, then mask the children. Don't return to school, return to school, don't return to school. Lockdown for 2 weeks, keep it up for over a year. You might call it science changing. I consider it (as do many Americans at this point) an excuse for a dictator who doesn't know what he is doing to cover up his arbitrary decisions.

[acdha]

He was one of the early researchers, not the only one, and most importantly for this topic he wasn’t involved in the development, testing, or review of the vaccines we’re using. The thousands of people who were have a much better claim than he does, and their work has been extensively peer-reviewed and monitored after mainstream approval. This isn’t some philosophical debate where nobody knows the answer, we can look at vaccine efficacy and safety data from around the world and see that they’re doing a great job.

You’re similarly misrepresenting Fauci’s positions and the degree to which he represented a scientific consensus and how that changed over time as conditions changed (vaccines have been a clear win since the early days; the best way to return to schools safely was not as clear cut and the idea that we had a year long lockdown in the United States is just absurd). If you find batting at strawmen entertaining, have at it, but I don’t see much value.

[darkarmani]

> Lockdown for 2 weeks, keep it up for over a year.

When has Fauci said to keep lockdowns for over a year? You are making this stuff up.

[bigfudge]

They perform different roles. A biologist is not necessarily expert in epidemiology/public health, which is really the expertise you need to evaluate the vaccines at scale.

[ALittleLight]

It must be useful to know how much credibility doctors and scientists deserve so that you can criticize them when they overstep.

[sebow]

> but he's a hack because he disagrees with the "scientific consensus" or something. Reasonable minds can differ on that.

That's kind of funny, because throughout history the people who were very critical of the scientific consensus (especially those who maintained this position even after lifting themselves up from a lower social status) are the ones who, on average, turned out to be right and either revolutionized that field or had an amazing insight that was a missing puzzle piece.

The mentality of 'scientific consensus says A, therefore B is bogus' does a lot more damage than people realize.Still, to be taken seriously you need to have some sort of proof or a sensible explanation of how you reached that conclusion.Here it's not as much that the guy is an incredible genius and is the only one with that position, but more of the fact that the critical voices almost entirely colluded.(This is de facto "proved" by the latest wave of western articles admitting that the narrative they adopted and pushed was done in an irresponsible fashion.See german press or even american outlets)

[Kbelicius]

> That's kind of funny, because throughout history the people who were very critical of the scientific consensus (especially those who maintained this position even after lifting themselves up from a lower social status) are the ones who, on average, turned out to be right and either revolutionized that field or had an amazing insight that was a missing puzzle piece.

You are saying that on average, those going against scientific consensus are more often right than they are wrong? That sound like a load of bullshit.

[sebow]

I expressed myself poorly because my wording gives room to implied causality.The historical figures did not make revolutionary insights or reshaped human history >because< they were going against the scientific consensus (let's say accepted narrative,thought,etc).Their own brilliance,insights [often gained through isolation by not adhering to a consensus] are the reason they were right, not because of their arrogance.That arrogance comes as a second nature due to the assumed knowledge one has about the domain to make contradictory statements against the consensus.

And quantifying my statement is hard if you assume causality and you don't make distinction between levels of "radical thinking".Because i can give you 5-10 well-known historical figures who fit my description and make me look right, and you can say "here are 10000 conspiracy nuts from YT who make you look wrong".What I meant by 'are the ones who, on average, turned out to be right[...]' is that the more radical/higher level your thinking is, the better chances you are to be right if you made your case for them(again, I mentioned that those people do not change their stance with time,social status,environment).

Accepting scientific consensus >because< it is the consensus and upholding it as an orthodoxy is precisely why there's stagnation in many if not all the fields.And yes, the more radical,incorporating,exploratory you are in your thinking, the higher chances you probably have in being "right", assuming you are actually creating a superset of a scientific domain(i.e innovating) and not merely "go against the wave".To take my point home: 5000 flat earthers from YouTube who are undeniable wrong make my average "wrong" because they are going against the current scientific consensus.Is their thinking radical or incorporates existing knowledge into something more profound?Do they change the thinking about world, is it shockingly different?No, they're just saying the negation of a proposition, mostly based on 'loads of bullshit' without substance or regard to the consensus.We used to think the earth was flat.This is different from, say, "Here is a conjecture which lies at the limits of current knowledge about X[say gravity, or anything].You're all wrong at thinking about X/Y/Z in terms of A, my insight (often new) is better and vastly different."

The main issue here is that from a known understanding, a newer,different idea might seem wrong.It's the duty of the "contrarian" to prove his case.If one stays true to his motives and is not a hack it will serve them well.

[Shaanie]

Your original comment is simply poor. A better way to phrase it would be something like "a lot of scientific breakthroughs came from people who fought against the concensus" and leave it at that.

[kenjackson]

Science is generally accepting of new ideas. Probably moreso than any other human activity.

[base698]

My favorite story about scientific consensus is the Wright Brothers. They didn't get credit for heavier than air flight from the Smithsonian until the 1920s. Also, NYT said the same week the Wright brothers flew that heavier than air flight would take millions of years. Should have shut down the bicycle mechanics for misinformation.

> They had offered it to the United States National Museum, as the Smithsonian Institution was then known, in 1910. Officials at the Smithsonian, particularly Charles Walcott, were "anxious to redeem the reputation" of former director, Samuel Langley, who had spent thousands of government dollars trying to invent an airplane which he called an "aerodrome."

https://libraries.wright.edu/special/wrightbrothers/flyer/hi...

[HPsquared]

On the historical point, I think that's mostly survivor bias. The famous examples are those (probably rare) ones that turned out to be right.

[mola]

This is selection bias, you only hear about those "hacks". Most hacks don't revolutionized anything, so you didn't hear about them...

[raverbashing]

> is willing to somewhat own his mistakes while the media never has

Your lack of knowledge about media "owning up" to their mistakes is not evidence they don't. Because they do.

I'm sure most people don't see the difference between actual Journalists (and not necessarily with a degree) and some dude talking crap on a microphone but there is.

> "In late 1987, Robert Malone performed a landmark experiment.

Well, so f what? This is 20% of the work that lead us today

Apparently having done that work (if that was actually his actual work) doesn't prevent him from misrepresenting his work spouting crap 30 years after that.

Best definition for Robert Malone is that "he had as much influence on the vaccine as Graham Bell had on the Lady Gaga's song Telephone"

[logicchains]

A sample of some of the patents held by Malone. Note the "Generation of antibodies through lipid mediated DNA delivery" and "Induction of a protective immune response in a mammal by injecting a DNA sequence":

Lipid-mediated polynucleotide administration to deliver a biologically active peptide and to induce a cellular immune response (includes mRNA). P Felgner, JA Wolff, GH Rhodes, R Malone, D Carson. Assigned to Vical, Inc and licensed to Merck. No. 7,250,404, date of issue: 7/31/07 Cited in 105 articles. Priority Date: 3/21/1989.

Lipid-mediated polynucleotide administration to reduce likelihood of subject's becoming infected (includes mRNA). P Felgner, JA Wolff, GH Rhodes, Robert W Malone, D Carson. Assigned to Vical, Inc and licensed to Merck. US Pat. Ser. No. 6,867,195 B1. Date of issue: 3/15/05. Priority Date: 3/21/1989.

Generation of an immune response to a pathogen (includes mRNA). P Felgner, JA Wolff, GH Rhodes, Robert W Malone, D Carson. Assigned to Vical, Inc and licensed to Merck. US Pat. Ser. No. 6,710,035. Date of issue: 3/23/04. Citations: 39 articles. Priority Date: 3/21/1989.

Expression of exogenous polynucleotide sequences in a vertebrate, mammal, fish, bird or human (includes mRNA). P Felgner, JA Wolff, GH Rhodes, Robert W Malone, D Carson. Assigned to Vical, Inc, licensed to Merck. US Pat. Ser. No. 6,673,776. Date of issue: 1/6/04. Priority Date: 3/21/1989.

Methods of delivering a physiologically active polypeptide to a mammal (includes mRNA). P Felgner, JA Wolff, GH Rhodes, Robert W Malone, D Carson. Assigned to Vical, Inc, licensed to Merck. US Pat. Ser. No. 6,413,942. Date of issue: 7/2/02. (cited in 150 articles). Priority Date: 3/21/1989.

Induction of a protective immune response in a mammal by injecting a DNA sequence (includes mRNA). P Felgner, JA Wolff, GH Rhodes, Robert W Malone, D Carson. Assigned to Vical, licensed to Merck. US Pat. Ser. No. 6,214,804, date of issue: 4/10/01. Cited in 360 articles. Priority Date: 3/21/1989.

Induction of a protective immune response in a mammal by injecting a DNA sequence (includes mRNA). P Felgner, JA Wolff, GH Rhodes, Robert W Malone, D Carson. Assigned to Vical, Inc, licensed to Merck. US Pat. Ser. No. 5,589,466. Date of issue: 12/31/96. Cited in 899 articles. Priority Date: 3/21/1989.

Delivery of exogenous DNA sequences in a mammal (includes mRNA). Assigned to Vical, Inc, licensed to Merck. P Felgner, JA Wolff, GH Rhodes, Robert W Malone, D Carson. US Pat. Ser. No. 5,580,859. Date of issue: 12/3/96. Cited in 1244 articles. Priority Date: 3/21/1989.

Generation of antibodies through lipid mediated DNA delivery (includes mRNA). P Felgner, JA Wolff, GH Rhodes, Robert W Malone, D Carson. Assigned to Vical, Inc, licensed to Merck. US Pat. Ser. No. 5,703,055. Date of issue: 12/30/97. Cited in 419 articles. Priority Date: 3/21/1989.

[fer]

Reminder that US patents don't require a working product to be granted. The USPO just takes the money and leaves it to lawyers to defend them. It's common in certain fields to blanket patent inventions before even having looked at their feasibility.

Also all of those are result of the research directed by Felgner, granted to Vical (his own company), and highly hypothetical at the time. Unsurprisingly, most of those, if not all, have expired without putting a product in the market.

mRNA vaccine development has been incredibly incremental and spanning decades. Anyone claiming they're the inventor because they put a few pieces of the puzzle together is incredibly disingenuous.

[gjsman-1000]

He got the ball rolling, and is credited as inventor by Nature. We call Thomas Edison the inventor of the lightbulb even though his lightbulb has little to do with modern LED lighting. Similarly, it is not dishonest to call Robert Malone (in Nature's own assessment) the inventor of mRNA technology.

[raverbashing]

> and is credited as inventor by Nature

Literally nowhere in the quote says that. An important step (if he actually was the main discoverer for those) but not "the inventor". He imagined it (in the same way I can imagine a flying car - but not invent it)

And Nature goes on: "But the path to success was not direct. For many years after Malone’s experiments, which themselves had drawn on the work of other researchers, mRNA was seen as too unstable and expensive to be used as a drug or a vaccine. "

Malone is mainly sour grapes https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/08/robert-m...

[blitzar]

You left off the important one;

5G mind control and human tracking via MRNA vaccine. Robert W Malone, Bill Gates.

[PickledHotdog]

He's also double vaccinated. So I'm not sure why the AV crews still hold him up as a hero

[logicchains]

He was vaccine injured by the second dose, and realised something was wrong, unlike the idiots who are like "oh I may have got permanent heart damage but at least I didn't get covid yet".

[PickledHotdog]

I may be wrong, but I thought he got vaccinated after contracting covid?

Thank you for letting me know I may be holding an incorrect belief. More research required for me :)

[peteradio]

He's 65+ and believes in informed consent. No contradiction there.

[PickledHotdog]

No contradictions for himself, no. The AV crews hold him up as a poster boy for not getting the vaccine though, citing that he as the 'inventor'* of mRNA says nobody should use mRNA vaccines. I wonder if many of them realise he's vaccinated.

*he also denies that he's the inventor, of course

[PickledHotdog]

I mean Malone in the above comment

[gumbah]

That’s interesting and should be out in the open if true. Do you have a source?

[vondro]

He (Malone) said it himself on the JRE show.

[skinpop]

ever tried reading a major newspaper? they print corrections and apologize for errors in their reporting every single day.

how often do "independent" media figures apologize or admit to making mistakes?

corporate media sucks, but their lies tend to be more about what they choose to present and what they choose to omit rather than made up facts.

[015a]

Then if not Joe, who would his audience listen to? Shapiro? The next guy?

You cannot, and shouldn't, sculpt a model of society where anyone who speaks out loud needs to speak with journalistic and scientific integrity. It cannot work; it never has, and it never will. Regimes which try to limit free speech fail, unfailingly.

You should push for more critical listening. The most surefire way to underdevelop your ability for critical thought and listening is to bubble the content you consume to only professional sources, mainstream news, and government spokespeople. So, don't listen to Rogan, or anyone else you disagree with; you're dumber for it. Not because everything he says is right; but because you'll slowly lose the skill of not just taking everything at face value, but thinking critically about why he's wrong, integrating the things said on his show with your own experiences, other media you've consumed, what scientists say, what politicians say, what random hackernews commentors say, and forming a holistic opinion about the world.

Not everyone has that skill; either by choice, accident, or otherwise. And that's the second skill you need to develop: being ok that some people will believe the wrong thing. They'll spread it. People will die; that's what people do. Think on how spectacular our world is; most of it exists in the only time in human history where freedom of speech is so protected; and some choose to desire to throw that precious right away to... save lives? Our collective freedom and values are far, far more important than life; I hope, beyond hope, that they'll outlive me.

Religion has done this world a lot of bad. In fact, many would be surprised with how recently the Vatican's crackdown on freedom of speech led to many scientists being unable to discover the nature of reality; that's what happens when we don't cherish freedom of speech. But, one thing it did do right, and with it one thing many have lost in our society: the collective recognition that there are goals for our species greater than life itself.

When someone says something wrong, or something I disagree with: I cherish your right to say it, here, in this forum. You shouldn't be labeled as disinformation; nor censored with a downvote. We should have a discussion.

[philosopher1234]

How about instead of “we must allow complete free speech, anything else is bad” we go for “sometimes it’s practical to censor”. The world isn’t so black and white.

[johnmorrison]

No. It is.

[UncleMeat]

That's why you support removing of all laws around false advertisement and impersonation, right?

[bko]

> provocateurs and hacks like robert malone or ben shapiro on his show... and impressionable young men have been radicalized to a dangerous degree on the internet

Ah yes, Ben Shapiro will radicalize young men to... get married and start a family? I really don't understand the harm from the examples you mentioned. He offers alternative voices that don't get much attention by CNN or NYT. Literally every other media outlet will have the same 5 or 10 same talking heads and officials telling you the science du jour.

[TrispusAttucks]

Your comment makes a good point.

What's with these people with pitchforks for the Ben Shapiros and the "others" of the world?

I hear all these bad things about the "others". How crazy the "others" are. I believe it.

Then when I look into and research those "other" people they are usually totally reasonable.

I don't understand all the hate for the "others".

[Gareth321]

Just a couple of years ago the only thing I had ever heard about Ben Shapiro was that he is "crazy." I must admit that I didn't actually follow up on that. I just took it as fact. The truth is that I was living in a very safe, very insular media bubble; consuming news which gave me just one narrow narrative.

Covid struck and I became increasingly disappointed with the information I was receiving. It began conflicting with actual scientific research I was reading. I stepped outside my bubble. Boy is the world a bigger and more interesting place. Ben Shapiro promotes old timey family and economic values. That's it. His views would be mildly left to anyone in the 70s or 80s. Of course, to some, old timey family and economic values make him "literally Hitler." Not to me. I don't agree with most of his values but I also think he has a right to speak and discuss his views. He's clearly not crazy, and the world has space for people who believe in nuclear families and proletarian work ethics.

I'll never again make the mistake of not challenging the information I consume. I am now very suspicious of anyone who tells me that challenging authority is wrong.

[kenjackson]

“Old timey values“ is the best euphemism of the day.

[Chris2048]

If you're implying that it mean "racism" that's not a very good-faith reading.

[kenjackson]

Yes, it's not exclusively racism. But certainly includes it.

[steelstraw]

Tribalism. Unfortunately it still exists in the modern day.

[gjsman-1000]

Ben Shapiro is, even though I disagree with him on many things, certainly not alt-right. He is very pro-vaccination and condemned January 6th as an ugly day in American history. His advice to people basically is work hard, get married, have a family, and don't be a criminal.

[PickledHotdog]

While actively denying it's much easier to avoid being a convicted criminal if you're white or rich or both

[gjsman-1000]

He has stated that black incarceration rate is higher and does not deny it. He does not address too much why the rate is higher (he suspects it is related to the same reasons why the marriage is much lower among black people), but he does not actively deny it in any way.

[dfadsadsf]

At least in US the best way to avoid being incarcerated is being Asian. Does Ben deny it?

[p1necone]

Maybe he didn't quite follow the same trajectory of radicalization/insanity as the rest of the alt-right, but he was definitely a poster child of the movement at some point. Him claiming to not be doesn't really change anything.

[gjsman-1000]

The alt-right a loose collection (with overlaps) of January 6th supporters, anti-vaccination activists, people who believe the election was stolen, white supremacists, and so forth.

Ben Shapiro is pro-vax, does not believe the election was stolen, and has had the FBI arrest alt-right people who made death threats against him multiple times over the years. "Poster child of the movement?" Unless you consider alt-right to be completely the same as far-right, that was never the case. No movement makes death threats against their poster child.

[_-david-_]

Ben Shapiro was one of the people most attacked by the alt-right. The alt right isn't a big fan of Jews after all.

[refurb]

“Alt-right” is just a label slapped on an unacceptable right-of-center viewpoint that attempts to lump it in with racism, authoritarianism, etc.

It’s kind of a useless label at this point, since it’s thrown around so much.

[jjgreen]

According to Wikipedia [1], the term was coined by American white nationalist Richard B. Spencer and shortened to "alt-right" and popularised by far-right participants of /pol/, the politics board of web forum 4chan.

So more a label that they slapped on themselves.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alt-right

[maccard]

> Ah yes, Ben Shapiro will radicalize young men to... get married and start a family?

That's not the bit that people have a problem with, and it's completely disingenuous to frame it that way. They have a problem with his views on transgender people, his views on gay people, his views on same-sex parents, and the views of the people he supports and spreads the agenda of.

[scotty79]

> Ben Shapiro will radicalize young men to... get married and start a family?

To get frustrated that nobody is willing to do that with them.

[gorgonzolachz]

Sorry, I made a couple of points in that post, and you're conflating two of them. Ben Shapiro isn't radicalizing anyone, but he's definitely a hack who regularly says controversial things to get into the public eye. In a principled political party he would live on the fringes, like Hasan Piker does for liberals (although that might be a reach, I'm not super familiar with either figure).

[cloutchaser]

> a hack who regularly says controversial things to get into the public eye

This is so easy to say about someone you disagree with. But the other side will say the same about your heroes.

Almost anyone in the public eye will say things to get in the public eye. That's what they are good at. In politics, those things will be by definition controversial to some people. Not to mention the opposing media will purposefully twist what you say into controversial things.

I don't see how Ben shapiro is special in this in any way.

[logicchains]

>and hacks like robert malone or ben shapiro on his show

It's not just Malone; over 17k doctors and scientists have signed the Rome Declaration in support of his message: https://doctorsandscientistsdeclaration.org/.

[scotty79]

Point 3 is just "Don't correct us when we do stupid things."

[ahoka]

That's less than 0.2% of the doctors. Not really impressive.

[dshpala]

I'm getting strange COVID-speak vibes from your comment.

All that "you don't get to decide", "and that's where danger comes in".

I think the reasoning in your head is actually backwards, and you think that because JRE got Spotify contract he now has to "be doing their research" in fear of losing it. It's all about money, eh?

[KittenInABox]

Seriously asking: what is COVID-speak?

[yanderekko]

I'm guessing it's an attempt to poison the well by pointing out that "I want to be able to choose which media I consume" sentiment is often employed by anti-vaxx nutjobs to protest social media censorship.

[edmcnulty101]

So some censorship is good?

[zo1]

Not OP. I thought it was really disturbing the first time I heard someone say they got "the jab" or "double jabbed".

[_Wintermute]

That's just how vaccines are commonly referred to in the UK, long before covid.

[pandaman]

That's not how vaccines had been referred in the US before 2021.

[zarzavat]

Why would that be disturbing?

[fknorangesite]

Is that because you were previously unaware of an extremely common idiom?

[zo1]

I am aware of the term, having lived in a former British colony. It's hard to verbalize it. But it was just so sudden and became THE jab not just a jab, and people were talking about it everywhere. It felt very forced and like it came out of a marketing department.

[MockObject]

It was not a regular term in US before Covid, and always sounded strange when British media used it.

[ComradePhil]

>In mass media today, influencers and other people of note who don't have advanced degrees should be doing their research - from credible sources - so they're not spouting inaccuracies and falsehoods to their followers.

Meh! I would rather listen to people's original perspectives despite of potential inaccuracies, instead of lies fabricated by corporations via highly paid "experts".

[twox2]

> He does it because he knows his fanbase will listen to it, ingest the information, and then speak it as fact to their friends and family

It's very hard to take this seriously, because there's no evidence of it. The guy is an entertainer that built a platform that lets him talk to whoever he wants. There's no narrative being pushed.

[nathanaldensr]

So Joe Rogan should be silenced because some people might take things the wrong way according to you. Got it.

[bonestamp2]

I don't see where you got that from. He suggests that Joe does more research, not be silenced.

[newsclues]

I like to listen to people and make up my mind on my own.

Why should you or anyone else decide who should not have a voice for me to listen to?

Do I get to tell you who is to provocative to listen to?

[ostenning]

If you disagree with someone, you need to get into the arena with them and criticise what they say and debunk it. If someone doesn't agree with Rogan or his guests and believe they are spouting scientific nonsense, then it needs to be challenged, not suppressed.

But because our media is so entrenched the only challenge Rogan gets from conventional media are typical smeer campaigns that look disingenuous and erode trust even further. Vaccine hesitant people are never really addressed adequately by government or by conventional media. Distrust is at an all time high and the power structures of the world have never been so apparent to the every day man.

The solution to all of this is transparency, discussion and health policy that targets the problems rather than blanket policy that ostracises and discriminates.

Suppression will only make the situation worse because all of a sudden we on a slippery slope to totalitarianism where (automated) fact checkers are the primordial source of truth and authority.

Ostracising will only make the situation worse because all of a sudden we have very large portions of the community (upward of 25% in countries like Germany) now feel discriminated against, people cannot get on planes and travel to see loved ones, they cant go the cinema, they cant do basically anything, all because they object to handling of health policy. Further more politicians like Macron are stoking divisions even further and marginalizing these people by proclaiming they are non-citizens.

Shit, I cant really imagine a better way to fracture western society. In my mind the virus really did win.

[sometimeshuman]

"If you disagree with someone, you need to get into the arena with them and criticise what they say and debunk it."

This is the challenge Dennis Prager often offers to young college students in his audience. It is comically grotesque to see a senior professional debater and speaker take joy when he shuts down a young nervous challenger. Sure, you and I can think of quick responses, in the same way when we watch a boxing match and can see where the challenger made a mistake. But in a real life arena most of us would probably take a beating when matched against a pro.

A sincere debate can be had when one is willing to steel-man the other's argument but that's not an option when being right and winning is your opponent's brand.

[8note]

Debunking makes people believe the thing more favourably. It's the same psychological trick that makes advertising exposure work. If you hear more about something, good or bad, you like it more.

People are not rational beings who will disregard an idea because it is incorrect. The debunking is instead an attack on the person's identity or one of their friends. What you really need to do if you disagree with somebody is befriend and get them to have an emotional attachment to the same ideas you do

[raverbashing]

> Vaccine hesitant people are never really addressed adequately by government or by conventional media

Maybe to people who only follow crap on facebook and refuse to read "mainstream media" then misrepresent what they show. Mainstream medis is not saying what fb is parroting.

Because this has been ongoing for the most part. But hey it's boring and not written in capital letters so nobody reads it

> then it needs to be challenged, not suppressed.

You've just proven that people don't do that. Thanks. There's no better evidence than your post that people are too stupid to get out of their bubbles

> we have very large portions of the community (upward of 25% in countries like Germany) now feel discriminated against, people cannot get on planes and travel to see loved ones, they cant go the cinema, they cant do basically anything

Of course they can, they just have to stop being idiots. And if they won't do that by themselves the virus will do it for them

[newsclues]

“If you disagree with someone…”

I start by listening to people before disagreeing with them.

I know that is a radical idea, but I think prejudice isn’t good.

[curtisblaine]

> "If you disagree with someone, you need to get into the arena with them and criticise what they say and debunk it"

Unfortunately, it's one-way only. You can't "get into the arena" disagreeing (for example) with the institution same-sex marriage without calls for deplatforming, Facebook bans and (for example) Neil Young trying to get your content removed.

[eric_cc]

So what you're really saying is:

> Joe Rogan [has PEOPLE I DISAGREE WITH] on his show.. THAT is where the danger comes in.

[edmcnulty101]

"fringe views"

I dont think he's had a single guest on with fringe views. At least 30 to 40% of America is unvaccinated.

Hardly fringe.

Also, fringe does not equate with being wrong. The view that marijuana should be legal was once a "fringe" view.

[StanislavPetrov]

It was a "fringe view" in early 2020 when those of us wore masks despite Fauci and the rest of the pointy heads in DC saying that masks weren't needed, and were possibly harmful. It was a "fringe view" when those of us said we shouldn't invade Iraq, because their was no credible evidence of WMD. It was a "fringe view" (and still is, unfortunately among many) when some of us said that there was no credible evidence of a "Russian attack" on our election in 2016. It was a "fringe view" when some of us insisted that the government was illegally spying on us before Snowden's revelations.

According to modern standards of social media censorship, all of these "fringe views" would very likely lead to getting banned and/or silenced for "misinformation". The fact is that the accuracy of a belief has absolutely no relationship to how widespread that belief is. This is especially true when the government, big tech and their legacy media outlets work together to engineer a consensus view (or the appearance of a consensus view) that hews to their preferred narrative rather than reality.

[edmcnulty101]

Glad you recognize this. Gay marriage was also considered a fringe view at some point.

Fringe views need a platform because they're right ALOT.

[nmz]

Alex Jones

[criddell]

Alex Jones is an interesting example. I had never really heard anything about him except for the little bits and pieces that make it to CNN. Then I listened to a Joe Rogan interview with him and it convinced me that Jones is literally crazy. Rogan would ask him something and Jones would go ballistic yelling and spewing nonsense.

I've heard criticisms of Rogan for giving people like Jones a platform, but in the end I can't believe it helps Jones. He came off as a lunatic in the show I heard.

[edmcnulty101]

I don't know enough about Alex Jones to say one or the other. He's got millions of listeners.

I'm sure he may have some fringe views but so does Neil Degrassi Tyson and everyone else.

Define fringe views.

[nmz]

You know, there's a big difference between being a devil's advocate and pure idiocy.

Edit: I'll give you the benefit of the doubt on whether you've never actually heard of or seen alex jones, here's a quick rundown

https://youtu.be/WyGq6cjcc3Q

[edmcnulty101]

Picking 20 seconds out of thousands of hours of your political enemies broadcasts to smear them is the lowest form of propaganda.

How do you know you're not the one being radicalized?

Have you ever tried to listen to Alex in good faith even if you don't agree and try to understand his view at least? Or is your entire perception based off of John Oliver?

Do you think you could pick 20 seconds out of John Olivers footage and make him look like a crazy person?

> impressionable young men have been radicalized to a dangerous degree on the internet. Having the same views on his podcast as conspiracy theory sites, for example, will undoubtedly make it easier for the bad actors running these sites to radicalize JRE listeners

Some would say that claiming the outcome of free speech is radicalization...to be pure idiocy.

And this cancel culture lockdown mentality is possibly why mid terms are going to rough for the left.

[nmz]

> Picking 20 seconds out of thousands of hours of your political enemies broadcasts to smear them is the lowest form of propaganda.

ok, here's 5 full hours https://youtu.be/-5yh2HcIlkU

> How do you know you're not the one being radicalized?

How do you know you're not the one being radicalized?

> Have you ever tried to listen to Alex in good faith even if you don't agree and try to understand his view at least? Or is your entire perception based off of John Oliver?

I have, he's entertaining. I don't take a single thing seriously. I've spent some time researching on thing he's said, all of it was gross mischaracterizations and exaggerations on any topic. I won't spend any more. I'm not a journalist, that's their job.

> Do you think you could pick 20 seconds out of John Olivers footage and make him look like a crazy person?

That would be fantastic, go ahead. This isn't idolatry.

> Some would say that claiming the outcome of free speech is radicalization...to be pure idiocy.

Well, it is through free speech that radicalization does happen, however, nobody is talking about free speech here. because alex jones can still say whatever he wants. (as long as he can pay for libel/slander fines), you can exercise free speech. deplatforming has nothing to do with free speech.

[antifa]

Probably you should make sure Alex Jones didn't do something horrible like call the sandy hook shooting victims "crises actors" leading to mass harassment campaigns and suicides (that he is currently losing lawsuits over) before you decide to defend a random person for no reason.