Just had a fascinating conversation with my smartest friend who is also anti-Trump. He says he gets his news from CNN, MSNBC and the NY Times. So I tested him to see the quality of his general knowledge on the hydroxychloroquine story.
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The fact he has never heard of off-label prescriptions doesn’t help his case... this is fairly common knowledge right?
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I know, he’s smart and watches cnn, good grief dilbert
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I'm not trying to be insulting, but medicine is difficult to understand if you're not in the field, for most people.
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Yeah but in this case it’s not an understanding issue, it is a depravity of information issue. He’s just flat out not being given information that‘a important watching those garbage partisan networks.
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I think maybe we should consider redefining “smart”
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I think that is a bit unfair. None of us knows more than a tiny snippet of our world first hand; the rest we learn from external sources. So our world view is determined almost entirely from information we received from someone else. So the source of our info is key.
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Statistics is modern day snake oil. Don't like how the numbers look? Just change the story behind them. Narrative math.pic.twitter.com/NAyouNFI5b
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