[noelwelsh]

This is a great example of the issue the blog post is addressing, namely:

> The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.

The play book is:

1. Set an impossible standard (an undefined "unbiased" fact checker)

2. When impossible standard cannot be reached, throw toys out of the pram

Meanwhile, egregious levels of bullshit now go unchallenged.

[brookst]

Yeah it’s just the seat belt fallacy: seatbelts are useless because people still die in car crashes.

Somehow our whole society has fallen for the “unless you can point to a perfect saint who has never done any wrong, we might as well be led by active criminals” pitch. It’s so nihilistic.