Learn to Discern & Focus
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UPDATE (A teaching moment):
A reader commented on this post that the tweet Rogan discusses is a hoax.
You can read my reply with my reasons I DON’T think it is a hoax.
Anyone with more evidence please feel free to comment with links. I’m happy to change my mind. Thx
Just so I don’t feel like I wasted a bunch of time today (gheesh, two hours already about this darn tweet!) I’m going to explain my process. Hopefully it will at least be handy to someone as a teaching moment.
Today’s lesson - Learn to Discern & Focus
A common disinfo tactic is to throw shade with no “sauce” or proof. Just a statement to create doubt is all that is necessary often to discredit a legitimate story. Hitting a blog with an accusation like hoax with no links or proof is a common method to keep people from following a story. Learn to recognize how you yourself react to disinfo tactics and you will improve your own discernment. I would normally ignore such a comment since it adds no data to the conversation (other than the obvious fact it intentionally includes no data, » which is ITSELF data) but I got sucked in today. I have absolutely NO WAY of knowing if this tweet is a hoax. NOBODY DOES. That is the point of this lesson.
Phrases like “It turns out …” are powerful and go viral because those types of phrases are known to create just enough doubt in readers that the reader will lose interest and move on to the next story. In my comment below I outline the research I did to help me personally decide if the tweet in question is likely real or not. I think it is real from evidence I found. The commenter replied with a link to a tweet to a TikTok video that lays out why the TikTok poster thinks it is a hoax. If you have time today, read my comments below, then go watch the TikTok video and make up your own mind.
Going through that specific process is what is missing from or culture. That is the lesson. With the cesspool of disinfo smothering social media the most important thing you can do is gather evidence and learn to recognize how some things are presented as evidence when they in fact contain no evidence. I found evidence, from the source, from the actual doctor who supposedly posted the tweet. That evidence is real and it lead me personally to believe she is lying. The TikTok video was not convincing to me. Maybe I am wrong. Maybe you think I am wrong. If you used discernment and did real research, good, that’s great, love it. You made up your own mind and weren’t led around like a mindless sheep.
- Learn to Discern
Another tactic is to tie someone up with useless debate. I fell into that trap today, but maybe it is worth it, since I am writing about it. Debating about whether this tweet is real or not distracts from the more important discussions such as holding creepy people accountable. The whole world has seen tweets with a similar sentiment posted over the past year, lack of regret for doing evil. Some people do actually think the way she wrote. Maybe her tweet was a master troll by someone out to get her. I don’t know what good it did for the trolls. Maybe the intent was to cast this psycho doctor as an imaginary victim when she has years of tweets showing she was was very mean to people who didn’t want an experimental gene jiggle juice injection, if anything she is the persecutor and not a victim at all. Getting distracted debating subjects of minor importance distracts from bigger things.
- Focus
You can look through her wayback twitter archive.
It’s over 10k archived since Jan 2021:
https://web.archive.org/web/20210101000000-*/https://twitter.com/SolNataMD/status/*
The random ones I pulled up were full on looney tunes.