• jet@hackertalks.com
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    11 hours ago

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physicians_Committee_for_Responsible_Medicine

    Political lobby group

    To promote non-animal methods in research and education (opposition to animal testing) and a plant-based diet for disease prevention

    A political action group is hardly an objective scientific third party providing dispassionate evaluation of science.

    We could rewrite the article title as “Vegan organization tells MAHA to not eat animals”

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      9 hours ago

      That doesn’t “discredit “what they have to say automatically. This comment would fall under the appeal to bias logical fallacy.

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        9 hours ago

        Agreed, it absolutely doesn’t discredit what they say.

        But the group name and headline are written in such a way that it sounds like a unbiased independent research organization made a conclusion based on rigorous science, so its worthwhile to be clear about the biases of the headline.

        PS I’m only downvoting you here because you downvoted me, fair is fair.