Name: How Unbiased are Facebook "Fact-Checkers"? | Jim Agresti | Dr. J Show #60
Uploaded: 2020-11-27T20:00:14+00:00
Duration: 59 min 31 s
Description: James D. Agresti is the president of Just Facts, a think tank dedicated to publishing rigorously documented facts about public policy issues. His research on wide-ranging issues—including abortion, he

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James D. Agresti is the president of Just Facts, a think tank dedicated to publishing rigorously documented facts about public policy issues. His research on wide-ranging issues—including abortion, healthcare, sex trafficking, taxes, gun control, pollution, energy, global warming, and the national debt—has been cited by universities, think tanks, major media outlets, and government entities at local, state and national levels. Jim holds a Bachelor of Science in Mechanical Engineering from Brown University and has worked as a designer of jet aircraft engines, a technical sales professional, and chief engineer of a firm that customizes helicopters. He is the author of Rational Conclusions, a book evidencing factual support for the Bible across a broad array of academic disciplines.

Topics discussed in this episode of the Dr. J Show include:
Beware the Fact-Checkers
Common sophomoric errors of the Fact Checkers
Left-leaning Fact Checkers
Facebook cherry picks its fact checkers
Studies that control for negative consequences in order to gain biased conclusions
Example: Study of lesbian "parents" that took out alcoholism, one of the main characteristics of lesbian "parents"
Differences between JustFacts.com and JustFactsDaily.com
Voter Fraud exposed: 16% of non-citizens illegally vote

Jim's website:
www.justfacts.com

article:
https://www.justfactsdaily.com/social-ills-that-plague-african-americans-coincide-with-leftism-not-racism

article:
https://www.justfactsdaily.com/quantifying-illegal-votes-cast-by-non-citizens-in-the-battleground-states-of-the-2020-presidential-election

Sue Ellen Browder’s speech on propaganda, at our 2020 Awards Dinner:
https://youtu.be/yfQwx5cn6Ug

Defending a Truth-telling, but banned, book with Brian Camenker:
https://youtu.be/SfmeP-LmSEg

Mark Regnerus debunking bad studies on LGBT parenting:
https://youtu.be/IAg1X5Y3uMw

Andre Van Mol debunking bad studies on transgender medical treatments:
https://youtu.be/65degbWqgvo

Angela Lanfranchi debunking bad studies on abortion and breast cancer:
https://youtu.be/528SoUTRXi4

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