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Originally Posted by TorqueDog
For the latter, "Mixed for factual reporting due to false and misleading claims regarding global warming" says to me that you should be very skeptical of claims they make regarding climate change. For anything else (the other half of the 'mixed' rating), hold it in uncertainty until you can verify. Any technical or scientific claim deserves verification. Fraser Institute also hasn't failed a fact-check in the past five years (as of their page update in Dec 2024); this isn't blanket approval, but definitely runs counter to the idea that they cannot be trusted on any subject, ever.
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If an organization is willing to mislead (lie) about one topic I fail to see why I should trust them on another. There's many other right of center organizations that are reputable, The Fraser Institutions continually fudges numbers to their agendas favour. If I want a right wing group to feed me loaded information I'll go to Franco Terrazzano and the Canadian Taxpayer Federation. They're pretty scummy and bias but at least they don't pretend they're not.