Your racist Facebook uncle may have sent you a link to a trailer for "Plandemic," a conspiracy movie that stars a disgraced virologist called Judy Mikovits who makes a string of claims about her credentials and the coronavirus.
Science Magazine evaluated those claims.
Unsurprisingly, the majority of claims that Mikovits makes about her credentials and the science of coronavirus are provably false.
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So I just posted this and literally minutes later saw this post after reading the article. I don't know @pluralistic
but something caught my eye about the whole post. I too found the article inconclusive and mentioned it in my response to @vnarek. It is nice to have more amplifying information on the background on the doctor but I'm far from making my decision to believe either side. Either way, my responce to @pluralistic is: as follows:
Summary: Too little information to decide a position on Mikovits' claim and I'm not sure I have the time or access to discover conclusive facts. I am happy we are in the information age but what is true and what is not is the current problem? Hurry up blockchain!!
I like the use of the word "probably". I agree, the short film's overall feeling is the protracted version of clickbait. It seems if someone wants their movie to go viral, they have to have some conspiracy or anti-establishment feeling to it (insider information marketing tactic). This makes it difficult to trust anyone or their information since their movie tends to tell their motives and what they are really pursuing, instead of truth.
The reason i like "probably" false is, it admits there isn't much research or information to decidedly convince yourself or anyone else there is factual assurance. Seems fair that way. But it also sounds bias in that you make the capitulation (that this may not be true) but still express your disbelief in the overall conspiracy.
Anyway, this is something that has been on my mind recently about media and all the conspiracy theories out there.
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