Friday, February 16, 2018

As much as I advocate for expanding your horizons, You'd think I'd actively try and seek out things beyond my filter bubble. I do, to a certain extent but only as far as making sure I am consuming accurate information. My fellow liberals seem to dislike if I analyze certain social movements too deeply. I mean I guess if you just want to stand on blind faith, that's fine, but I am really bad at following blindly. You can ask my church groups. But I find that when I begin to analyze, things are not as they seem, and more often than not, I find I don't like what I find.  Practicing what you preach is important, but I almost want to argue that being fully aware of all the facts and what/who you are endorsing is more so.

Which brings me to our topic of the week: biased and fake news. If you do research on a movement and such, I feel like it's more difficult than ever to find fact-based non-biased articles. Honestly, and this really tweaks me, this applies even to the sciences! Science is supposed to be entirely fact based, and I do understand that there is such thing as expectancy bias, but REALLY. SCIENCE SHOULD NOT HAVE A POLITICAL AGENDA.

But that is just my opinion. The opinion of a naive undergraduate student.

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