'Flat Earthers,' a new docuseries and competition show on The Network, will offer a cash prize if people can convince experts the Earth is flat.
  • Paragone@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 months ago

    Don’t play games with disinformation.

    Treating disinformation as worthy of equal-validity debate, itself “sends a message”, validating the disinformation.

    • conciselyverbose@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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      3 months ago

      Bias towards fairness means that if the entire congressional Republican caucus were to walk in to the House and propose a resolution stating that the Earth was flat, the Times would lead with “Democrats and Republicans Can’t Agree on Shape of Earth.”

      Will McAvoy, The Newsroom

    • Flying Squid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
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      3 months ago

      I understand why you’re saying that, but I also think a show like this might convince fence-sitters that flat Earth ideas are nuts.

      And James Randi and Penn Jillette could both say a lot about the benefits of using TV to mock pseudoscience. Adam Savage too, while we’re at it.