It definitely is not for at least two reasons. 1) Exhaustion of expert resources via sea-lioning. 2) Most people don't actually want information, they want something to confirm their viewpoint.
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Sanchez is wrong in that's an invitation to "do your own research". Most people are too lazy to do so, and even as he said, they lack the proper background to make sense of genuine sources. Instead the deceivers hope to overwhelm you with 'data' so you won't second-guess them.
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I believe it's called a 'gish-gallop'. They give you charts, and the links, some of which are to bona fide sources, but even then they cherry-pick the data or just misrepresent it. The guy being talked about in this piece is the most extreme case I've seenhttps://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/9/7/1975678/-Statistical-Fraud-The-soi-disant-Ethical-Skeptic-on-COVID-19-edition …
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Scientology same.
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See how to respond to a Gish Gallop: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Gish_Gallop#How_to_respond …
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