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What's wrong with asking questions about the competence (and honesty) of experts and "the media"?


Asking questions is obviously fine. "Just asking questions" is a specific bad-faith rhetorical tactic: https://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Just_asking_questions


Nothing is wrong with a good-faith question asked out of an honest curiosity.

Have you looked at which countries were identified as high risk back in April 16 2020?

https://www.newsfirst.lk/2020/04/16/sri-lanka-ranked-16th-am...

Then compared it to actual deaths?

https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104709/coronavirus-deat...




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