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@annecavicchi https://youtu.be/sGArqoF0TpQ

@annecavicchi If only they would identify the idiot beforehand, and prominently place that title on a banner while they’re speaking.

@annecavicchi Often it's a fight just to get them to include an expert...

@annecavicchi if they only announced it that honestly…

@annecavicchi the issue is that the idiot tends to make more sense to the idiots watching.

@annecavicchi I'm not so sure. Don't they often skip the first point and jump directly to the talk with the idiot ?

@annecavicchi More like, "And in the balance of interests, that is special interests, as in, corporate interests, we will also talk to someone whose job it is to instill fear, uncertainty, and doubt in the minds of the audience so nothing the expert says will be heeded."

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news: What if we did the dead parrot sketch from monty python and called it a "debate"?

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sadly, I think the key metric for non experts is reach. people don't want to accept it but the leading purveyors of alternative perspectives (usually bullshit) need to be publicly argued with imo. in a world with easy access to unlimited information and arguments, that's our best option to get the most people to understand what's most likely true. refusing to do so by people with access to the largest media outlets can be easily spun into attempts to censor by grifters.

@annecavicchi I knew a guy who got sick of being put up against climate deniers on the BBC, one day he snapped and this is what happened:

https://greenworld.org.uk/article/no-debate-tweet-brought-shift-bbc-climate-change-coverage

@annecavicchi @norbert Audiatur et altera pars

@annecavicchi Often Colombian corporate media too.

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Mastodon does not have enough boost capacity to sufficiently convey my agreement…

@annecavicchi@mindly.social

This is one of my favorite links, about said subject matter

But if ‘entitled to an opinion’ means ‘entitled to have your views treated as serious candidates for the truth’ then it’s pretty clearly false. And this too is a distinction that tends to get blurred.

@annecavicchi since Gove said we’ve had enough of the experts that’s been the case. Unless of course they’re the experts the #viletories approve!