181 – How To Read The News With Bounded Distrust, with Wesley Fenza

We discuss Zvi’s How to Bounded Distrust with Wesley Fenza.

Wes is from The Mind Killer!

Other links:

Bounded Distrust

On Bounded Distrust

The Media Very Rarely Lies + followup + 2nd followup

People Will Sometimes Just Lie About You

Matt Yglesia on Why You Can’t Trust The Media

Discovery in lawsuit case shows FOX News hosts didn’t believe their own narrative

NYT leadership decided tech will be covered negatively

Conflict Theory of Bounded Distrust

Eneasz did the dumb homework:

MIT article on how the vaccine was delayed by a week to just after the election

Nate Silver said it deserves looking into

Zvi says of Topol “there was the time he was instrumental in sabotaging approval of the Covid vaccines so that it would happen after the November election.”

00:01 – How To Bounded Distrust

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