A field day for the Father of Lies

‘Misinformation’ may well become the word of 2022.

The popular podcaster, Joe Rogan, who has 11 million subscribers, was threatened with ‘cancellation’ because of alleged ‘misinformation’ provided in a three hour programme with Dr Robert Malone. The troubling thing is that without knowing what this ‘misinformation’ was, and without listening to the programme, many people just joined in the pile on – on the basis that the accusation must be right because ‘270 scientists/doctors signed a letter saying so’. And yet dig a bit deeper and you find that only 87 of the signatories were doctors. The rest included engineers, psychologists, teachers, social workers, students, several podcasters, a dentist, and even a vet!

The irony is that Malone is a doctor and was involved in the development of mRNA vaccines. This does not mean that his views are right but we should be very careful about shutting people down for misinformation when we ourselves are not informed! This columnist is not defending or attacking Malones’ views – as I don’t know enough about them – which is why I want to be informed. The point is that you don’t deal with misinformation by banning it. You provide the real information.