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A reminder that this is still how they think.
Here's a fact check OF a fact check about Project 2025, something that has been stated recently will gut the National Hurricane Center.
USA Today's fact check of that claim
Now when I first ran across this link, I thought, hmmm...are liberal Youtubers making up stuff to sell their position as a hurricane approaches? Maybe so. Then I read the article and actual text from Project 2025.
Not in the text, this part of the fact check is correct. The text calls for review of it as well as other agencies and downsize or move resources around as needed. But then I see:
Well, that set off some alarm bells in my head. They aren't actively proposing to shut it down, but there does seem to be an agenda here.
I read all this as exactly how MAGA Republicans in power have been treating anything tied to climate change. They aren't completely cutting things out, only the parts that are inconvenient to their agenda. Which of course is terrible science, and will absolutely affect the ability to learn and respond to future threats.
USA Today is a tool for them if they are marking such claims as completely false.
Lol, "one side of the climate debate." There isn't debate among scientists - there's like less than one percent of climate scientists who don't believe that humans are putting our climate in a terrible place. So just that part the tells you the bias. It's just like when they talk about the debate between evolution and creationism: the only debate is with people who reject the data to further their own agenda.
In 2014 John Oliver had a segment on Last Week Tonight where he had "a statistically representative climate change debate", where he brought out 3 scientists arguing against human affected climate change and 97 arguing for it.
https://youtu.be/cjuGCJJUGsg?t=3m3s
Right, that's the thing.
I honestly believe part of the problem this country is in today started when the news media felt they had to give equal time to every issue. I remember lots of segments on climate change where they had one person on each side, and I could understand most people coming away believing we just don't know. And it's not just climate change, they did that with everything.
So here we are, polarized like never before, with so many believing that every opinion is legitimate. Sure, you can believe what you want, but if you believe the world was created 6000 years ago, you're just wrong. You're entitled to believe something wrong, but that doesn't make it valid. A legitimate news site should reflect that. A climate denier or a creationist shouldn't get equal time. Same with do many issues.
We can thank Reagan for the situation with the news. He got rid of the Fairness Doctrine which mandated broadcasters both present controversial issues of public importance and do so in a manner that fairly reflected differing viewpoints.