If so, public health officials have compounded the problem with disingenuous arguments, dubious policy shifts, and misleading statements.
Talk about encouraging vaccine hesitancy.
The man was actually calling for Dinger, the team's mascot.
The suggestion that a person can't make any reasonable guesses about his own likelihood of survival is misleading.
Recycling a government press release is not good journalism.
Federal officials invited alarmist press coverage of breakthrough infections.
In Virginia, the breakthrough hospitalization rate is 0.0032 percent and the breakthrough death rate is 0.0009 percent.
The administration is dismayed by the alarmist news coverage it invited.
The existence of politically biased websites is not a crisis.
A bad response from the magazine's parental advice column
How a debate about COVID-19's origins exposed a dangerous hubris
For decades, Western apologists downplayed the horrific consequences of China’s reproductive restrictions..
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The CNN host reportedly blamed the governor's troubles on "cancel culture."
The surprising move raises concerns about academic freedom.
The paper gives short shrift to evidence that vaccines nearly eliminate the risk of infection.
There are many other people who deserve such mercy.
The media fell in love with her. But there's little to her claims.
California Democrats and journalists are suddenly concerned about expensive government.
The paper let linguist John McWhorter use the racial slur he was discussing but felt a need to explain that decision.
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When government doesn't deliver, voters look for unpolished candidates from outside government. Go figure.
A new RAND analysis shows how difficult it is to answer basic questions about this rare variety of homicide.
By invoking the magic of good intentions, the Times justifies the U.S. acting like Russia and China.
From "power poses" to the self-esteem movement to implicit bias tests, we want to believe one small tweak will solve our problems, says Jesse Singal.
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Who's being irrationally paranoid?
Both advocates and skeptics of the copycat theory recommend self-restraint by the news media.
The decision by the CDC and FDA to pause the Johnson & Johnson vaccine was a disastrous misstep.
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So far it's crickets from The New York Times and The Washington Post.
The Washington Post nevertheless blames "a broad loosening of public health measures."
CBS cut the part where DeSantis carefully explains why the reporter's narrative is wrong.
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The suggestion that the ordinance could have prevented Monday's mass shooting is utterly implausible.
The leader of the mob follows the victim to the gallows.
Rhetoric around the shootings risks putting massage workers everywhere in more danger.
The full video shows that Jay Baker was paraphrasing what Robert Aaron Long told investigators about his motivations.
Profuse apologizing was not enough to save Alexi McCammond.
He said plenty of other bad things. But more than one quote sourced to anonymous informants has turned out to be wrong.
The comparison poses a puzzle for people who believe lockdowns were crucial in controlling the pandemic.
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The governors of New York and California have botched major aspects of the pandemic response.
"Silicon Valley's Safe Space" has misinformed readers.
A person you know might be having an online conversation without a transcriptionist and a fact-checker right now, and we have to stop it.
While the administration symbolically ended Trump's "zero tolerance" approach, it has not put an end to family separations outright.
The tweet was neither anti-Semitic nor "fake news."
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