SevMax2
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Whatever. I wasn't defending Breitbart. I was asking questions. I wasn't even saying that they're a bad site. I was asking questions. In any case, if after the repeated lies exposed in the Pentagon Papers and the Afghanistan Papers, just two obvious, glaring examples that come to mind, haven't convinced you that the government frequently lies, then I hold out no hope for you. The government is tainted, its record is tainted, and any association with it taints those who are on its payroll with at least some doubt as to their veracity. Simply put, the government has been caught so many times lying that it's easy to lose track. The lack of WMDs in Iraq, for instance. If you can't see the obvious conflict of interest inherent in the dubious partnership between institutions that should keep some distance from each other in order to preserve their impartiality, which should be clear to anyone with more brain cells than an amoeba, I wash my hands of you.Cute. So who are YOUR verified, reliable sources? You dismissed two independent bias charts without "fact checking" either of them. In 5 minutes, you could have easily looked up both of the sources and made your own judgement, but you questioned their motives for no real reason in order to dismiss a statement that breitbart (of all fucking places) has multiple reliable data sources that say they lean heavily right and basically publish bull shit.
Maybe you don't understand the difference between fact and opinion. At 1:05am today, you stated multiple "facts":
"The sad thing about statistics these days is that they just aren't as reliable as they used to be because of the inherent conflict of interest between academia, government, business, etc. Government involvement and corporate interference will corrupt the findings, among other things. If a person abandons their principles to serve the State, well, it raises real questions, because the government is very prone to lie to us, as is Wall Street. Just look at Big Tobacco, for instance. They lied to us for decades. Sad to say, people are regularly doctoring stats, cooking the books, fudging the numbers, because money and power are motives to academics and scientists, too."
What sources did you use to determine that statics aren't as reliable as they used to be? I'm certain you didn't do the primary research. Why is there inherent conflict of interest in statistics? If it's not ALL statistics, because you know, hyperbole, then why not just refer to some statistics? The government is prone to lie to us? What is your source for this? Have they lied directly to you so many times that you can now characterize the government (that's a really broad group by the way) as prone to lie? Do you have documentation of all the times the government has lied to you, thus creating your own primary research study? How about Wall Street. How has Wall Street lied to you? What evidence do you possess that academia is cooking the books and doctoring statistics? Perhaps you should go public with your findings so we can root out the bad actors.
I stand by my previous statement. You, and specifically you, shouldn't be stating anything as factual because you don't have any source for your "facts" that is reliable and you're paranoid. You have developed opinions based on whatever you read in the news or on the internet or what you heard at the water cooler from someone who heard whatever on the internet, however you're not the least bit willing to admit it nor apply any critical thinking to the data and the sources that you're consuming before regurgitating completely unoriginal thought on the internet. At least have the balls to admit that you're just saying bullshit on the internet that that isn't the least bit defensible.
Cooking the books is nothing new, by the way. They did it in the Soviet Union to make it seem that they achieved their production goals for industry and agriculture. That's just one case in point, of course. As for Wall Street, again, I refer you to Big Tobacco, just as one glaring instance. They repeatedly lied to Congress and to the public and released false information to us. It sounds to me as if you're just naïve and don't like anyone challenging your naivete. You're like the sheep who listens to the other sheep warning about the goat leading them to the slaughterhouse, and then tells him, "You're paranoid. There's no way that our human owners will ever have us killed."
As for my assertion earlier, I'm convinced of it. I don't expect that you'll believe me, but I'm personally convinced of it. That's your problem, not mine. I don't waste time worrying about whether or not others agree with me. I never stated it plainly as "fact." I stated my perspective and my thoughts, my analysis on the issue. I never claimed that was undeniable, indisputable, proven, hard, empirical data. That was your interpretation of my words, not my words themselves.