17000 deaths from hydroxychloroquine

[UltraBudgie]

So today's unreliable science update, for those keeping score at home, the study that was used to angrily claim that prescribing hydroxychloroquine caused 17,000 deaths during the pandemic has... wait for it... been retracted!

Retraction Notice (Biomedicine & Pharmacotherapy, Volume 179, October 2024)

Something about the data and techniques being faulty. Totally not deliberate though.

Let's see if any of these articles get updated:

• The Hill
  
• Politico
  
• Frontline News
  
• Scripps News
  
• The Guardian
  
• KFF Health News
  
• News Nation
  
• Newsweek
  
• AOL.com
  
• Yahoo News
  
• Daily Kos
  

Or perhaps we'll get follow-up articles, apologizing? Just kidding! Anyway, probably not surprising to anyone here, but I thought I should mention it.

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[Maxmars]

At some point in the future, many of the organizations on your list will have to admit that "activist journalism" is NOT informative (as in it does not 'serve' to inform anyone of anything.)

They will be forced to recognize that "press-release" journalism is usually either a) advertisement, or b) propaganda.

Also that the "public" is neither as stupid as they have been told to project, nor so 'afflicted' as to make their 'confidence' programming actually effective.

I won't expect acknowledgment of the 'retraction' of the bullshit they spread so eagerly in any real way.  Just a whisper here, and a rumor there...

[UltraBudgie]

edit: sorry, its not about me

[Maxmars]

Without members like you, and people like you... we would all end up oblivious to the facts of the past... while literally inviting them to repeat.

I find that there is absolutely no "foul" in openly analyzing what is offered up as 'news.'  It is rationally imperative to do so.

The only people who do object, I have found, are those who want us to digest "news" exclusively as "pure information."  Examples abound.

What you are doing isn't 'activism' it's counter-activism. 

Without a counter... activism actually manifests as operating instructions, rather than information... examples abound.

Once the "new" journalism became a matter of "journalist fee fees and editorial fee fees" nearly all of it lost its value as information...  except as an example of how NOT to "report" the news.

Should we ever stop, some people - somewhere - at some time are going to be lulled into the belief that "The government is always on top of the situation"...

here the truth is "The government is always on top of us." ... and an unchallenged media will always be their prime helper...  examples abound.