Evil Clowns | Public Occurrences, Ep. 19
Sovereign Nations
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Do We Want Public Health Officials to Shape Information, Nudge Lies?
In december, he explained in an interview with the new york times that he had been moving the target estimate for herd immunity. In his own words, he nudged his target range for herd immunity to promote the absolute dire need to take vaccine. So even though his comments were made to influence public actions to get more people vaccinated, the central dilemma remains: do we want public health officials to report objective facts and also uncertainties transparently, or do we want them to shape information, nudge lie? And much of america has apparently decided that they would prefer to have the lies, lies that are shaped by political goals and aspirational, utopian globulos goal s that disrupt and
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