Premier Smith defends Alberta’s COVID report, citing importance of ‘contrarian’ views www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber... This is textbook "bothsidesism"... Ignore evidence, leaning into spin, and using discredited sources is not "science", it is the opposite of science. - ThreadSky

caulfieldtim.bsky.social • 38 days ago

Premier Smith defends Alberta’s COVID report, citing importance of ‘contrarian’ views https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alberta/article-defending-covid-report-danielle-smith-says-its-important-to-hear-broad/

This is textbook "bothsidesism"... Ignore evidence, leaning into spin, and using discredited sources is not "science", it is the opposite of science.

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hope50.bsky.social•38 days ago

Danielle Smith is a liar and a traitor

public4ph.bsky.social•38 days ago

This contrarian attitude about science angers me!

At this point the moon might as well be made of cheese!

tangibullah.bsky.social•38 days ago

Are you saying it's not? 👺

redana.bsky.social•38 days ago

Science is about listening to other points of view… I’m trying to imagine what she thinks science is. It definitely doesn’t mean what she thinks it means.

cecilnagy.bsky.social•38 days ago

So next time (there will be a next time) the powers that be will have this report and ??? what else for guidance. The Chicken Shit Premiers are failing future generations by not having a thorough review.

froggles42.bsky.social•38 days ago

To intentionally spread this dangerous disinformation with the official stamp of the Government of Alberta on it is attempted genocide.

welladriansays.bsky.social•38 days ago

When Covid hit, physicians and officials with no immediate experience looked to the steps taken with the Spanish ‘flu. If you put on record fraudulent data, you are a danger to future generations. That’s a crime against humanity

craecan.bsky.social•38 days ago

That's always my favourite section of systematic reviews - Contrarian Views.

preambulator.bsky.social•38 days ago

Smith is both reckless and irresponsible. We're seeing in real time in the U.S.A. results of maniacal leadership. She is following a similar crazed path, & we'll all suffer the results until she and her sycophats are turfed out of office. A once proud & prosperous province is being laid to waste.

billga2603.bsky.social•38 days ago

Alberta got oil. It went. Let it go. 51st Statehood a shoe in.
Shame about BC.

nodataman.bsky.social•38 days ago

Like "some people say the earth is actually flat" kind of contrarian opinion - would be the reductio ad absurdum of her statement.

criticalcapitalist.bsky.social•38 days ago

"Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'"
- Isaac Asimov

kinkykit02.bsky.social•38 days ago

This isn’t a philosophical debate! Science is facts, not opinion!

rogerdempsey.bsky.social•38 days ago

Another "alternate facts" person

wifflepoof.bsky.social•37 days ago

@deanblundell.bsky.social @zevshalev.bsky.social

yeggirlab.bsky.social•38 days ago

She’s a fukn moron

axedame.bsky.social•38 days ago

Good f-ing grief.

These MAGA-inspired crumbs always tell on themselves with their loathing of facts/evidence/expert knowledge.

And make no mistake, that's what's behind Poilievre's MAGA-borrowed 'common sense' slogan, too.

assargrinde.bsky.social•38 days ago

Contrarian views on evolution and plate tectonics also deserve a full review by our provincial government.

sheenat283.bsky.social•38 days ago

Smith is a simpleton, a dangerous one at that. But where are the rest of the MLA’s? Are they all onboard with this stupidity?? I can’t believe the lack of integrity shown by the entire caucus.

evethorne.bsky.social•38 days ago

UCP are Maple MAGA and they concur. The NDP will come out with a statement. Will the media cover it?

princesstoothfairy.bsky.social•38 days ago

She is our Robert Kennedy Jr. doe she have a brain worm too?

artistrose.bsky.social•38 days ago

We have bent over backward to let “everyone” have a say. Sadly because they get 1/2 the air time people have the illusion that the anti-vax “contrarians” represent 1/2 the science, 1/2 the population when in fact they are a very loud very small number of the population spreading lies & nonsense.

christiecrackers.bsky.social•38 days ago

Will they sue when they get cervical cancer as a result of not getting HPV vaccine; same with polio, TB, mumps, etc.?

artistrose.bsky.social•38 days ago

I’m a Rotarian. The move to out law required vaccines is baffling to me.

christiecrackers.bsky.social•38 days ago

Common sense seems to have 'left the building" and for some given way to conspiracy nonsense. You certainly don't expect it from leaders, but here we are.

proconsul.bsky.social•38 days ago

https://bsky.app/profile/proconsul.bsky.social/post/3lgwaqtpp6c2p

spideysense.bsky.social•38 days ago

This is why she blocked everyone on Twotter (before she was Premier) unless they were ass kissers.

spideysense.bsky.social•38 days ago

Twitter… ugh

ronnichol.bsky.social•38 days ago

“Evidence”? You mean like 2 weeks to flatten the curve, or masks don’t do anything, no I mean mandatory masks will save us, children (at minimal risk) have to be vaccinated, skating on an outdoor rink will kill grandma, if you think that Covid came from the wuhan virology lab you’re racist.

takforalt.bsky.social•38 days ago

I’m pretty sure Justice Hogue had the Danielle Smith’s of the world in mind when she spoke of mis/disinformation as our biggest threat.

44chris44.bsky.social•38 days ago

Political science. Not facts but what your base wants to hear. Choose the findings you want and pick those that will support them.

rkozsan.bsky.social•38 days ago

Smith is a disaster, full-stop.

addleben.bsky.social•38 days ago

"we have to respect contrarian views"

"No, we don't."

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