Monday, June 1, 2020

The Question Of Evidence When Governments Push Political Narratives

Today, in the background of the risk of world conflict and threat to health and our way of life arising from Covid-19, it's never been more important to be sceptical and understand evidence.

Evidence comes in many forms: testimony, circumstantial, documents, and research or expert studies.

Below are some established concepts of assessing evidence as well as some pointers about the reality of today's global scene that's relevant when reviewing sharply conflicting narratives.

They've looked at the evidence to establish the latter, but have unconsciously swallowed the unsubstantiated media propaganda on Assad as a person.

Just being mindful of these pitfalls when reviewing evidence helps to get to a more open-minded mindset.

FINAL THOUGHTS. To those who've researched and studied evidence and applied this to global events, it's apparent that mainstream thinking at all levels doesn't resemble the reality.

In the meantime, we should spend the time in lockdown looking at the evidence in the round.

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