A couple of years ago at Mythcon, @vadimnewquist tried to make the case that NO, conspiracy theories and anti-science were not just as bad on the right and left, but was shot down.
Now we have "STOP GETTING TESTED" in the news, and I find that its centrists I& #39;m annoyed with.
Now we have "STOP GETTING TESTED" in the news, and I find that its centrists I& #39;m annoyed with.
"BOTH SIDES" was the mantra for years, and it wasn& #39;t true. It was clearly not true, based on evidence and science. Here& #39;s an exhaustive book by Harvard Law professor Yochai Benkler on the matter from 2018. https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1093/oso/9780190923624.001.0001/oso-9780190923624">https://www.oxfordscholarship.com/view/10.1...
This details in great detail what was obvious to everyone who was looking- that the Right had nurtured a twisted media landscape, openly antagonistic to science and academia, and hostile to any media outlet that wasn& #39;t their own.
And it was full of conspiracy theories, paranoia and nonsense.
And OF COURSE there was some of that on the left- but as Benkler pointed out, it tended to get corrected- because leftists look at a wider variety of media, and aren& #39;t fundamentally averse to evidence.
And OF COURSE there was some of that on the left- but as Benkler pointed out, it tended to get corrected- because leftists look at a wider variety of media, and aren& #39;t fundamentally averse to evidence.