misleading or problematic—it sidesteps the media, which threatens to hold him accountable for his stunning duplicity and corruption. Similarly, Harris does not write articles for media platforms other than his own. He does not publish peer-reviewed papers about most of the 2/
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issues he vociferously opines (and whines) about on his podcast. He has created a small, closed media empire in which he, too, can dodge accountability: *there is no editorial oversight, no peer-review, no quality control*. Harris can say whatever he likes on his podcast and 3/
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no one is going to challenge him—unless he specifically invites them on for a debate, something that he controls (as well as whether the recording is edited or released). Harris can spread misinformation, make misleading statements, spout factual falsehoods, and there’s no 4/
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one there to correct his errors—he’s insulated from criticism from genuine experts on, say, social justice, racism, feminism, and so on. Harris has a direct line to his audience, and they trust him, in part because many listeners (mostly white and male, tbh) do not know 5/
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enough about social justice issues, scientific racism, feminism, and so on, to realize that Harris would utterly fail the corresponding Ideological Turing Tests. Indeed, Harris has become one of the greatest sources of misinformation about “the left” out there today—and 6/
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there’s no way for those of us (on the left with less power) who care about “truth” to rectify this avoidably tragic situation. He’s a version of Fox News, but with a false air of intellectualism. I am worried about this new and dangerous era in which people who explicitly 7/
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claim to care about facts and evidence are able to mold and shape and deform the opinions of large groups of people without having the mechanisms in place to ensure that their statements are, indeed, based on the facts and evidence. As someone who publishes peer-reviewed 8/
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academic papers and has all of his books thoroughly examined by colleagues prior to publication, it’s very disheartening to see the epistemological bar being set so low by “rational men” like Harris. 9/9
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I have been a sam fan for a few years now. I have heard critisism of him and not got it. I am now realising that his critics were on the money, Hes not crazy wrong, but he has gone done considerably in my opinion of him.
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If it makes u feel any better, Clive, I fell for Sam’s faux intellectualism for years before wising up.
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