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Old 10-04-2023, 03:39 PM   #141
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Posting an opinion article in the misinformation thread. Well done friend. Well done.
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It's funny just how big of a partisan hack this writer is. Just reading the headlines is enough for me to question how the NP is considered any better than Sun Media.


https://nationalpost.com/author/mickyhiggins/
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That's the idiot who tried to sue a bunch of people for libel after they called her a quack. The case was hilarious. She sued 23 people, her lawyer (also an antivaxxer) had to withdraw because he ended up in a coma in hospital (presumably due to COVID, but that was never officially released), and then she ended up getting her case thrown out and having to pay over $1M in legal fees for the people she frivolously sued. And in the decision the judge said "Dr. Gill herself is the most obvious cause of damage to her reputation."

She also sued someone else for $7M for calling her an idiot on Twitter.

Yeah, real genius and champion of free speech at work there. Suing 2 dozen people in an attempt to censor them.
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Though maybe I shouldn't have used the word "idiot" if that's enough to get sued for $7M.
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Speaking of misinformation…

https://nationalpost.com/opinion/ont...ritical-doctor

It’s funny how the regulatory bodies we are supposed to trust quickly disappear when having put their “facts” in public view. I wonder why they changed their mind on this particular doctor.
The worst part is the ####ing comments.
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Old 10-04-2023, 04:44 PM   #146
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It's funny just how big of a partisan hack this writer is. Just reading the headlines is enough for me to question how the NP is considered any better than Sun Media.


https://nationalpost.com/author/mickyhiggins/
They ARE Sun Media.

All. Of. It.
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They ARE Sun Media.

All. Of. It.
Crap, right. All owned by Americans.
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Old 10-04-2023, 06:03 PM   #148
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Though maybe I shouldn't have used the word "idiot" if that's enough to get sued for $7M.
It's only libel if it's not true.
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Old 10-04-2023, 08:03 PM   #149
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Posting an opinion article in the misinformation thread. Well done friend. Well done.
I honestly tried to find another source referencing the hardship this doctor has experienced. Funny enough, when searching for news related to this doctor, all I could find were articles from CBC and other news sources referencing the cautions issued by CPSO to her as well as the subsequent litigation including referencing litigation that she lost as she tried to fight back.

Naturally, none of these “trusted” media sources have mentioned this retraction and ending of this “disciplinary” hearing. I wonder what narrative is being pushed here.
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I thought this was great commentary on truth and other aspects of misinformation in light of the exposé of Hisan Minhaj.

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Bill Maher is anti-vax. Thinks all health problems are due to obesity.
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Bill Maher is anti-vax. Thinks all health problems are due to obesity.
Even when Bill Maher says things I agree with I roll my eyes and say “uhhhh shut up already…”. He’s so annoying.
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Bill Maher is anti-vax. Thinks all health problems are due to obesity.
He is not anti-vax but is more critical of big pharma and the influence that they have in society and policy.
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Even when Bill Maher says things I agree with I roll my eyes and say “uhhhh shut up already…”. He’s so annoying.

That is literally how I feel about out-spoken atheists. It’s like the most grating and irritating people in the world nominate themselves as spokespersons.
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Ok. This is a good one.

https://www.hindustantimes.com/world...991471048.html

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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s office has rubbished the sensational claim by a former Indian diplomat that his plane was “full of cocaine” when he visited India for the G20 Leaders Summit earlier this month.
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Maher might be annoying sometimes... okay, a lot of the time, but he's dead on with that one. Minhaj has always been awful.
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Minhaj was good when he was on the daily show and his whole act was being a smarmy d-bag. As soon as he went into his own act it became unbearable pretty fast.

Maher is always annoying, but he's right a lot of the time.
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Bill Maher is anti-vax. Thinks all health problems are due to obesity.
Not really the point of the video, and frankly, a lot of America's health problems are exacerbated by if not directly attributable to the obesity epidemic.
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Not really the point of the video, and frankly, a lot of America's health problems are exacerbated by if not directly attributable to the obesity epidemic.
It would be an interesting public expenditure for the US govt to buy Novo Nordisk and give every American who wanted it Ozempic for free. I suspect they'd get the few hundred billion that would cost back.

And they'd be able to provide diabetes medicines as a side benefit.

That's one of the saddest things I've ever seen. On a post outside a dollar tree in Baltimore there were 3 flyers all in a row:

"Auto title loans - money fast"

"Make $ selling plasma"

"We pay cash for diabetes supplies"

Any system where there's a black market for simple life sustaining medicine has an issue.
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That is literally how I feel about out-spoken atheists. It’s like the most grating and irritating people in the world nominate themselves as spokespersons.
Edit: Wrong thread.
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