I was at this debate. It didn’t go well for Eliot Higgins—who showed himself to be a superficial booster of other people’s views/opinions.https://twitter.com/aidilarazak/status/1053680418145345536 …
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With Bellingcat, Eliot’s main schtick has been to give narratives pushed by powerful interests an “independent, citizen journalism” sheen. This tactic might work well on Twitter and online, but failed miserably in real life.
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On stage, Eliot demonstrated that he had no real expertise — or really any kind of real authority on the subject: not political, not scientific, not analytic or even personal. He’s taken seriously because powerful institutions say he should be taken seriously.
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After appealing to authority, Eliot proceeded to insult and smear Ted Postol as an out of touch old man, an Assadist, an apologist for mass murder...
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When called on his lack of expertise, Eliot resorted to crude insults. This from a guy who gets funding from the Atlantic Council and NED, a Reagan Era CIA cutout.
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When Eliot and Bellingcat smear and attack Americans and American journalists who are critical of American foreign policy, remember: he and his crew are funded by NED, a notorious American spook cutout: https://williamblum.org/chapters/rogue-state/trojan-horse-the-national-endowment-for-democracy …
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best part is when higgins asks postol if his work has been peer reviewed as if anything higgings claims (online) is peer reviewed (:
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Higgins, lacking an education, doesn't understand that academic research has no value if not published and peer reviewed..
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More BS buzzers went off for me when the BBC did a *totally fawning* profile on Bellingcat a week or so back
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Yh I actually read that. It was a pure propaganda.
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Exactly...
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