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The chairman of Thompson Reuters, who professionally fact check information for Facebook, is on the board of Pfizer which is a grave conflict of interest and there's been repeated examples of them lying outright so all bets are off on who you may suggest is being misleading.

Love how people won’t even admit this fact into the conversation. Thank you, sincerely, for bringing this up.

So you think that all studies AND hospitalization data that show the benefit of the vaccines now that billions of people are vaccinated are... FALSE... across hundreds of countries... because the chairman of ONE news organization is on the board of Pfizer?

I appreciate how antivax people love to share this fact like this is the ULTIMATE argument as to why the vaccine is actually BAD.

> Cool. What if it's misleading?

That question applies in literally every case and therefore doesn't change change the optimal strategy.

> What if it requires some domain expertise to detect a reasonable-sounding, but actually false claim?

That question applies just as much to links from "sciencebasedmedicine.org" as it does to the OP.

> That question applies just as much to links from "sciencebasedmedicine.org" as it does to the OP.

Sure, which is why being aware of both is valuable.

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