Few institutions are as responsible as the MSM, and The New York Times in particular, for spreading misinformation about the pandemic.
Yet at the Supreme Court today the Biden Administration is, with the support of most in the MSM, demanding the right to censor “misinformation.”
A great example of this paradox is the Times’ “no duh!” story that school closures were a horrible mistake, harming children while doing nothing to slow the spread of COVID.
A growing body of research shows that pandemic school closures came at a steep cost to students. Data shows the more time students spent in remote instruction, the further they fell behind. https://t.co/96kMFd4Pun pic.twitter.com/tmqwSlV1kC
— The New York Times (@nytimes) March 18, 2024
“A growing body of research,” while technically correct, doesn’t really describe reality as it played out in real-time. Plenty of epidemiologists knew…