Fake News II - You Can Have it Both Ways
In yesterday's blog I described how a former scientist was provided a high visibility forum by the taxpayer funded Canadian Broadcast Company (CBC)-- to make up fake news . I hate that term. But it is a news website, and the information is fake . Fake news . It is so false, so maliciously untruthful, that neither Thierry Vrain or the CBC reporter noticed the inherent contradiction. The lies are so bad that they don't align. It is about creating fear, uncertainty and doubt, even if the claims are internally contradictory. But in the world of false information, you can have it both ways, and nobody cares, so long as the nonsense you spout fits their bias. Let's look at three lines from this article. This statement implies that rigorous dose-response tests have been performed and have concluded that low-doses lead to disease. No such evidence exists. There is no evidence that it accumulates in all of our organs. And "no research ha