We do, and that’s the point. It’s not “hey, we’re not as bad as them so don’t complain to us!”. It’s that there is already a lot of distrust out there, and giving people something to latch onto with “see, I knew the CDC wasn’t being honest with me!” can keep them from spiraling out of control with their distrust, since at least they know where it ends.
Mild well sourced criticism is way more encouraging of trust than no criticism under obvious threat of censorship because the alternative isn’t “they must be perfect” it’s “if they have to hide it, the problems are probably worse than ‘mild’”.
I responded to this on a different thread, but aside from the factual issues, this isn’t “mild well sourced criticism.” The post says the CDC is so untrustworthy that we can’t point uninformed people to it as a valid place to learn things, and there is literally no decent source for what people should do. That’s way beyond what anyone else credible was saying.
We do, and that’s the point. It’s not “hey, we’re not as bad as them so don’t complain to us!”. It’s that there is already a lot of distrust out there, and giving people something to latch onto with “see, I knew the CDC wasn’t being honest with me!” can keep them from spiraling out of control with their distrust, since at least they know where it ends.
Mild well sourced criticism is way more encouraging of trust than no criticism under obvious threat of censorship because the alternative isn’t “they must be perfect” it’s “if they have to hide it, the problems are probably worse than ‘mild’”.
I responded to this on a different thread, but aside from the factual issues, this isn’t “mild well sourced criticism.” The post says the CDC is so untrustworthy that we can’t point uninformed people to it as a valid place to learn things, and there is literally no decent source for what people should do. That’s way beyond what anyone else credible was saying.