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Mathew Crawford's avatar

My suggestion to people wanting to offer their takes (without waiting) is to explain them as well as possible to see if there is bias that could be toyed with. Make it a habit to hold back---particularly in parasocial circumstances.

Edit: I added the Woody Harrelson appearance with Bill Maher from five months ago in which he went fairly deep (not entirely correct, but with a lot of good or reasonable points and intuition) on pandemic medical scams. That YouTube video was viewed 775,000 times, so there were likely at least a million views. So, yes, it was well understood what Woody Harrelson thought ahead of his SNL appearance.

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Gary Sharpe's avatar

Also of relevance is the uniformity and seeming prepared response of the media e.g. https://twitter.com/KanekoaTheGreat/status/1629746822192463873

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