Experts against critical thinking, DOJs 24 elex meddling and other commentary

Early COVID-era documents by various “academics” and “professional fact-checkers” uncovered via FOIA widely denounce “the practice of doing one’s own research,” notes Matt Taibbi at Racket.Why? Because “the mere fact of mistrust” of supposedly expert opinion “raises risks of ‘totalitarianism’ (read: Trump).”Yet “while researchers constantly scan for misinformation/disinformation spread by ordinary consumers,” they never “look at government officials or credentialed experts as possible sources of bad information.”Consider the fact that a study by Jay Bhattacharya showed the April 2020 caseload in one California town “was around 50 times higher than public estimates,” leading to “dramatic over-counting of mortality.”In the ’70s, “academics drove VW buses with ‘Question Authority’ stickers.Now they’ve [built] a powerhouse industry around saying, ‘Don’t Bother.’ ”The Biden Justice Department’s action last week against alleged Russian state media employees “as part of an effort to crack down on Russian ‘misinformation’” should raise “huge” red flags, warns The Federalist’s John Daniel Davidson.The “only possible reason” to do it now is to suggest Russian election meddling is “designed to boost” Donald Trump — implying support for him is fake, “paid for by Moscow.” “We’ve seen this playbook before from Democrats,” with Russiagate in 2016 and Hunter’s laptop in 2020.Even if these allegations prove true, “the big takeaway” is the timing: Biden’s DOJ is (once again) “meddling” in the run-up to the November election — and in “a far more serious way” than “anyone in Moscow could hope to do.” Subscribe to our daily Post Opinion newsletter! Please provide a valid email address.

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