How physicians can fix media bias with science

KevinMD August 19, 2024
Howard Smith, MD

The assassination attempt is the straw that breaks the camel’s back. The “gaslighting” is over. The rules for truth by legacy media are never examined for objectivity. We do not have the Inquisition in the United States; we have the legacy media.

One “fact-checker” measures truth by “Pinocchios.” There is a better way—hypothesis testing. Who better to know about hypothesis testing than a physician?

What if the facts about how Medicare is represented by two media outlets are tested? Hypothesis testing follows four rules:

1. Identify the truth: The truth is out there. Truth-telling has nine phases, each representing a specific duty that pertains to an ideal storyteller.

• The initiation phase: The duty to collect all the facts.
• The...

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