Truths

“I was reading some interesting stuff the other day, and I was wondering if it was really true or not. How do you find out if something pretty controversial is true or not?”

“Well the easiest way is to do an internet search on the subject, and if the result shows a few of those fact-checking sites like Snopes or whatever are going to the trouble of denying it, then there’s a very good chance it’s true.”

“Oh it’s that easy?”

“Yeah. You don’t even need to read the article. You just know that if their world is threatened by some ‘truth’, well then, however they might try to make it look, it probably really is a truth. Otherwise they probably wouldn’t be much interested in it in the first place.” 

“Oh you mean like when they fact-checked and denied claims the Wuhan lab researching and experimenting on Coronaviruses had something pretty specific to do with the Coronavirus which came out of Wuhan?”

“Yeah, that would be a good example. And then later, perhaps after lots of kicking and screaming, the ‘fact’ ceases to be a fact. And of course they could never have known such a thing was a fact in the first place.”

“So they should probably be called bullshit artists rather than fact checkers?”

“Probably yeah.”