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Sean Davis (26 September 2014). "Wikipedia Is Now Trying To Eliminate The Federalist's Online Entry". The Federalist.
Patrick Howley (26 September 2014). "Conservative Website 'The Federalist' Targeted For Wikipedia Deletion After Criticizing Neil deGrasse Tyson". The Daily Caller.
Paul Bedard (26 September 2014). "Wikipedia wants to ban acclaimed conservative site the Federalist". The Washington Examiner.
Napp Nazworth (29 September 2014). "Neil deGrasse Tyson (Sort of) Admits to Misquoting George W. Bush and Agrees to (Someday) Apologize for It". The Christian Post.
Rich Lowry (1 October 2014). "The Cult of Neil deGrasse Tyson". Politico.
Jordan Davidson (16 June 2021). "Wikipedia's Quiet, Big-Tech-Funded Grip On Internet Knowledge Gives It Too Much Power". The Federalist.
Tristan Justice (18 April 2024). "NPR Chief Bragged About Taking Censorship Orders From Feds As Head Of Wikipedia". The Federalist.

COVID 19 "Misinformation" Now Outdated[edit]

Hi all,

That the Federalist promoted misinformation is today an extremely bold claim. There's now extensive research from prestigious institutions--from people much smarter than you or me-- suggesting that masks were ineffective; vaccines do not prevent transmission; lockdowns were ineffective. Have a look at the science:

Lockdowns ineffective (Johns Hopkins): https://sites.krieger.jhu.edu/iae/files/2022/01/A-Literature-Review-and-Meta-Analysis-of-the-Effects-of-Lockdowns-on-COVID-19-Mortality.pdf

Masks ineffective (Oxford): https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/22/opinion/letters/masks-mandates-covid.html

Vaccines Do Not Prevent Transmission (BMJ and several other prestigious journals):

BMJ: https://www.bmj.com/content/376/bmj.o298

CDC: https://www.stardem.com/news/national/cdc-covid-vaccines-won-t-stop-transmission-fully-vaccinated-can-still-get-spread-delta-strain/article_5f83d0cb-8b0a-535d-bbad-3f571754e5ae.html

The Lancet: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(21)00768-4/fulltext

We thus must be 100% sure that whatever we label as "false information" not "false" based on pseudoscience and hearsay, but on proof that that information is false. But these studies show that we cannot claim anything that the Federalist wrote is "false." There's plenty of evidence from prestigious journals to suggest that the claims they made and positions they took are true.

If you disagree, you're disagreeing with science; Oxford, Johns Hopkins and other elite institutions; the CDC; and prestigious academic journals. Who is Wikipedia to do that? Thesmallfriendlygiant (talk) 02:59, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Or not Who is Jonas Herby (for example)? Also do these sources talk about social distancing (not lockdowns) or that the death rate had been massaged? Does any of this contradict anything we say was misinformation? Slatersteven (talk) 16:29, 25 February 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Aside from the more obvious problems with your proposal, opinion columns are marked "opinion" for a reason. XeCyranium (talk) 22:11, 28 January 2024 (UTC)[reply]