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Listen to This Article: The British Medical Journal Story That Exposed Politicized "Fact-Checking"

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Matt Taibbi

Feb 02, 2022

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The fact-checkers who flagged Paul Thacker's British Medical Journal article about a Pfizer subcontractor for Facebook admitted they police narrative, not fact.

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Original text version published 2/1/2022:

TK News by Matt Taibbi

The British Medical Journal Story That Exposed Politicized "Fact-Checking"

In February of 2010, the New York Times released a front-page story entitled, “Research Ties Diabetes Drug to Heart Woes.” The lede read: Hundreds of people taking Avandia, a controversial diabetes medicine, needlessly suffer heart attacks and heart failure each month, according to confidential government reports that recommend the drug be removed from the market…

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