
Fact Checkers Aren't Scientists - Audio Edition
Too Often, They're Censors
On July 29, I posted my inaugural essay for Natural Selections: Fact-Checkers Aren’t Scientists. Every Tuesday I make a new post; these are available to everyone. Paying subscribers also receive an audio edition of the week’s essay. I am making the audio edition of this first essay available to all. Enjoy! And if you do, consider becoming a subscriber.
Let us learn some of the lessons that the pandemic has brought into sharp relief. Let us make our supply chains anti-fragile, and reduce inequalities in access and opportunity to key services. Let us interact in real time, with real people, as much as possible, rather than hiding behind screens—which will also help heal some of our political divisions. Let us remember that we are all more similar than we are different, and have much to learn from one another. Let us spend as much time outside as possible. And let us follow our curiosity, and our analytical and logical brains, towards a broader understanding of the world we live in, rather than a narrowly defined arena which has been brought to us by sponsors we did not choose, and should not want.
Come with me on this journey, as we actually follow some science.
Fact Checkers Aren't Scientists - Audio Edition
Oh Heather, what a wonderful essay; so articulate. While I sit here and rage, you calmly pick apart the obvious and expose it for what it is. From minute 11:15 to 12:10 may be the most profound statements made thus far. Thank you for putting into words what so many of us are thinking. "So you know that when you shut down dissent...what you are doing is following orders..."
That's a comfort to me; you've refreshed my courage. They will have to face the "facts" one day, and their defense will be, "I was just following orders", and that won't end so well.
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