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@raphjd
I've got a dozen more examples of leftist sites that they rate poorly. Care to see?

I'd say media bias fact checker is an equal opportunity abuser, handing out poor ratings wherever they're deserved.

@raphjd said in (/post/309324):

Ah, so that means that you get to use a leftist site to derail every topic you don't like?

Hmmm. If they're so left biased, then how can they rate CNN like this:

CNN is rated moderately left-biased based on editorial positions by TV hosts that consistently favor the left, while straight news reporting falls left-center through bias by omission. We also rate them as "Mostly Factual" in reporting rather than "high" due to two failed fact checks in the last five years.

Failed Fact Checks on CNN:

"If President Trump decides to deploy the U.S. military domestically, he would be “mobilizing U.S. military troops on American soil for the first time since 1807.” – False

"Greenland’s ice sheet has melted to a point of no return, according to new study” – Low Scientific Credibility

@raphjd You posted them as your source for this thread, not me.

@raphjd

The Epoch Times is rated Right Biased and Questionable based on the publication of pseudoscience and the promotion of propaganda and conspiracy theories, as well as numerous failed fact checks.

Failed Fact Checks from theepochtimes.com:

"Jack Andraka, 15, came up with a “100 percent accurate” cancer-detection method: “168 times faster, 26,000 times less expensive, and 400 times more sensitive” than current methods." – False

"Dubious Posts Tie Political Families to Ukraine Work" – False

"Concerned artificial intelligence researchers hurriedly abandoned an experimental chatbot program after realizing that the bots were inventing their own language." – False

"President Donald Trump has 232 electoral votes; Joe Biden has 212, 226, or 227." – False

COVID-19 vaccine mRNA is converted to DNA and enters the cell’s nucleus, so the vaccines can potentially change our DNA – Inaccurate

“COVID Deaths Have Been Vastly Overcounted” – Inaccurate

“Pfizer Knew About Immunosuppression”; “Fully Vaxxed Are More Likely to Die From COVID” – Inaccurate

@raphjd

HumanEvents.com is rated Right Biased based on story selection that favors the right and Mixed for factual reporting due to failed fact checks and writers who have failed numerous fact checks during their careers.

Failed Fact Checks from humanevents.com:

"Why Martin Luther King Was Republican" – False

"Boston schools suspended advanced program for being ‘too white and Asian’" – Mostly False

“Biden cancels Trump’s ‘Operation Talon’ Program that Targeted Sex Offenders Living in U.S. Illegally” – False

“A poll watcher in Philly was just wrongfully prevented from entering the polling place,” – False

Here's my original source for resist the mainstream.org's clickfarm claims. It comes from Stanford and the University of Washington

https://www.eipartnership.net/2020/north-macedonian-content-farms

@raphjd said in Detransitioner speaks:

They quote from and link to the original source.

Then the question remains, why don't you post that original source when you place the information here in the forum? It seems that would save you all the trouble of having egg on your face for posting such ridiculous clickfarm links.

@blablarg18 said in (/post/309166):

Altho boy circumcisions are normally about 1/50 the damage level.

Please elaborate on this "damage level" you speak of. It sounds as if there are some levels that are more appropriate than others? so some children are worthy of receiving damage at lower levels? I love this idea of a person who cares about the welfare of children but ----not all children---as some of them can apparently receive some damage level as long as it's low enough?

What would your "damage level" graph look like Please describe it

@raphjd
So him requesting it when he already knew what the answer was going to be was just merely a bit of theater on his part.

The subpoena was for exactly one document and any accompanying attachments dated from July 2020. I find it hard to believe that the entire Biden corruption probe is based on only one document. Also the subpoena was dated May 3rd so I don't know what you're talking about when you say he denied it at some congressional hearing.

The subpoena can be viewed here

https://oversight.house.gov/wp-content/uploads/2023/05/Comer-Subpoena-cover-letter-and-Wray-Subpoena-050322.pdf

It goes without saying that comer would have known about that FBI restriction for releasing those types of documents before he even sent the subpoena. He knew exactly what answer he was going to get from the FBI.

@raphjd You're partially right. The FBI responded in a letter Wednesday, with Christopher Dunham, the acting assistant director for congressional affairs, saying that while the FBI was committed to "beginning the constitutionally mandated accommodation process," it was also bound by Justice Department policy, which "strictly limits when and how confidential human source information can be provided outside of the FBI."

"Often, even confirming the fact of the existence (or nonexistence) of an investigation or a particular piece of investigative information can risk these serious harms," Dunham wrote, adding that it was "standard practice" for law enforcement agencies to decline to confirm or deny such facts.

@raphjd said in (/post/309128):

Director Wray refused to comply with the House subpoena for the documents related to this.

What do you mean refused? That subpoena was issued 11 days ago! You think a document request from the government to another portion of the government is going to take less than a week?.... please

Representative James Comer, a Kentucky Republican, admitted on Sunday that his fellow Republicans lost track of a key witness in an investigation about the Biden family being involved in an alleged bribery scheme. Comer tried to get records from the FBI that he said he believes could reveal whether President Biden allegedly received bribes from the foreign companies, basing his allegation on information he received from an anonymous whistleblower. That whistleblower is now missing.

https://nypost.com/2023/05/15/comer-republicans-cant-track-down-biden-bribe-informant/

@raphjd
According to Justice Department records, the odds of being charged for lying on this form are virtually nonexistent. In the 2019 fiscal year, when Hunter Biden purchased his gun, federal prosecutors received 478 referrals for lying on Form 4473 — and filed just 298 cases.

A 1990 Justice Department feasibility study noted how difficult it was to bring cases against people who falsely answer questions on Form 4473. Unlike the rich paper trail that exists for felons, no such record exists for drug abusers.

The data released by the Justice Department does not show how many of the 180 cases which were not pursued and which might have been successfully prosecuted for falsely answering the question about active drug use. But a review of such cases in Delaware shows that in fiscal 2019, only three Form 4473 cases were referred for prosecution in the state — and the U.S. attorney opted not to bring them.

@raphjd
What's interesting is that the section where Biden lied in his gun application, ATF form 4473, was a section that the gun industry and most GOP PAC's opposed being added to the list of gun purchase requirements. In one lawsuit to prevent form 4473 being implemented, the gun lobby stated:

*"The ATF is not the appropriate agency for drafting, modifying or amending the 4473 nor is it the appropriate agency for defining or clarifying what constitutes an “unlawful user of or addicted to any controlled substance” or “fugitive from justice”, because the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”) is empowered with the interpretation of 18 U.S.C. § 922(g), and as such ATF cannot proceed in this matter. See, United States v. Mead Corp., 533 U.S".

You would think then, that biden's lying on that question would be championed by the right, since the question itself was argued to be illegal by the right.

@blablarg18 said in Detransitioner speaks:

The 2 questions are

1. is content factual
2. is content on topic

A basic start in determining #1 is by asking where does the information come from. If it comes from a clickfarm run by the good people of Macedonia in order to make money, and that website is the only one provided in the discussion where that claim is made, and that website does not, itself, list any proof of where it got its information from, then we're on a pretty good path to determining that it's something to be extremely suspect of.

If someone made the claim that "it's raining in Tucson", and you knew that the person making that claim didn't live in Tucson, one of the first questions you would ask to determine the factuality of it would be "how do you know it's raining in Tucson". Epistemological questions such as this are always relevant.

@blablarg18

Here are 16 studies which show where gender transitioning care led to better mental health outcomes. Are all these medical publications wrong? And if they are wrong, where is your evidence that they're wrong?

• De Vries, A. L., Steensma, T. D., Doreleijers, T. A., & Cohen‐Kettenis, P. T. (2011). Puberty suppression in adolescents with gender identity disorder: A prospective follow‐up study. The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 8(8), 2276-2283.

• De Vries, A. L., McGuire, J. K., Steensma, T. D., Wagenaar, E. C., Doreleijers, T. A., & Cohen-Kettenis, P. T. (2014). Young adult psychological outcome after puberty suppression and gender reassignment. Pediatrics, 134(4), 696-704.

• Costa, R., Dunsford, M., Skagerberg, E., Holt, V., Carmichael, P., & Colizzi, M. (2015). Psychological support, puberty suppression, and psychosocial functioning in adolescents with gender dysphoria. The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 12(11), 2206-2214.

• Allen, L. R., Watson, L. B., Egan, A. M., & Moser, C. N. (2019). Well-being and suicidality among transgender youth after gender-affirming hormones. Clinical Practice in Pediatric Psychology, 7(3), 302.

• Kaltiala, R., Heino, E., Työläjärvi, M., & Suomalainen, L. (2020). Adolescent development and psychosocial functioning after starting cross-sex hormones for gender dysphoria. Nordic Journal of Psychiatry, 74(3), 213-219.

• de Lara, D. L., Rodríguez, O. P., Flores, I. C., Masa, J. L. P., Campos-Muñoz, L., Hernández, M. C., & Amador, J. T. R. (2020). Psychosocial assessment in transgender adolescents. Anales de Pediatría (English Edition), 93(1), 41-48.

• van der Miesen, A. I., Steensma, T. D., de Vries, A. L., Bos, H., & Popma, A. (2020). Psychological functioning in transgender adolescents before and after gender-affirmative care compared with cisgender general population peers. Journal of Adolescent Health, 66(6), 699-704.

• Achille, C., Taggart, T., Eaton, N. R., Osipoff, J., Tafuri, K., Lane, A., & Wilson, T. A. (2020). Longitudinal impact of gender-affirming endocrine intervention on the mental health and well-being of transgender youths: preliminary results. International Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology, 2020(1), 1-5.

• Kuper, L. E., Stewart, S., Preston, S., Lau, M., & Lopez, X. (2020). Body dissatisfaction and mental health outcomes of youth on gender-affirming hormone therapy. Pediatrics, 145(4).

• Turban, J. L., King, D., Carswell, J. M., & Keuroghlian, A. S. (2020). Pubertal suppression for transgender youth and risk of suicidal ideation. Pediatrics, 145(2).

• Carmichael, P., Butler, G., Masic, U., Cole, T. J., De Stavola, B. L., Davidson, S., ... & Viner, R. M. (2021). Short-term outcomes of pubertal suppression in a selected cohort of 12 to 15 year old young people with persistent gender dysphoria in the UK. PLoS One, 16(2), e0243894.

• Grannis, C., Leibowitz, S. F., Gahn, S., Nahata, L., Morningstar, M., Mattson, W. I., ... & Nelson, E. E. (2021). Testosterone treatment, internalizing symptoms, and body image dissatisfaction in transgender boys. Psychoneuroendocrinology, 132, 105358.

• Hisle-Gorman, E., Schvey, N. A., Adirim, T. A., Rayne, A. K., Susi, A., Roberts, T. A., & Klein, D. A. (2021). Mental healthcare utilization of transgender youth before and after affirming treatment. The Journal of Sexual Medicine, 18(8), 1444-1454.

• Green, A. E., DeChants, J. P., Price, M. N., & Davis, C. K. (2021). Association of gender-affirming hormone therapy with depression, thoughts of suicide, and attempted suicide among transgender and nonbinary youth. Journal of Adolescent Health.

• Turban, J. L., King, D., Kobe, J., Reisner, S. L., & Keuroghlian, A. S. (2022). Access to gender-affirming hormones during adolescence and mental health outcomes among transgender adults. PLoS One, 17(1), e0261039.

• Tordoff, D. M., Wanta, J. W., Collin, A., Stephney, C., Inwards-Breland, D. J., Ahrens, K. (2022) Mental Health Outcomes in Transgender and Nonbinary Youths Receiving Gender-Affirming Care. JAMA Network Open, 5(2), e220978.

No wait, my bad, that was resist the mainstream.com that bankrolls Macedonia. Post millennial.com was the one with the 30-year-old information.

@blablarg18 said in Detransitioner speaks:

As I've explained elsewhere, Trans so-called "science" is famously, FAMOUSLY, politicized, biased, whitewashed.

That sounds a lot like "shoot the messenger" to me. Where is your evidence that it is "famously politicized biased and whitewashed"? Postmillenial.com?

I see with your link to them, youve decided to help bankroll the good people of Macedonia as well. Good for you! With any luck the admins of that site will be able to build their new 3,000sq ft home in Veles.

@raphjd
Sorry, we can't all be cash cows for the good people of Macedonia. I prefer not taking at face value, the links provided here in the forum. It's a good thing knowing the people behind the curtain.