A very typical, very recent, very ominous example of this generational bleed-through is the reaction to the Cochrane Report of the effectiveness - or lack thereof - of masks when it came to stopping or slowing the spread of COVID. For decades, Cochrane reports - which are essentially studies of studies - were seen as the international standard for scientific research; in other words, if a Cochrane report said it you can be very muchly pretty damn sure its on-target.
The report was flawed, the report was bad, the report really didn't say masks don't work, the report was done by bad white people with ties to a nefarious netherworld of bad money, and on and on.
Of course, always one step ahead in the search for ways to cover their shame, the legacy media then "Fact checked" - i.e. lied about - the report to death.
It got so bad that even the not-of-the-same-generation Cochrane team - to be honest, to their discredit - turned tail and semi-sort of, kinda, pretty much apologized for the report.
No previous Cochrane Report has ever received this kind of bilgeworthy treatment and it is doubtful that one will ever again, especially now that the Cochrane folks have learned their re-education lesson.
Thomas Buckley is the former mayor of Lake Elsinore, Cal., and a former newspaper reporter.
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https://issuesinsights.com/2023/03/20/the-censored-generation/
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