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(46,358 posts)It's a "Blame Hillary" story, with a guy making wild claims he can't back up.
Which is par for the course on faux "news."
On edit: Turns out "Dr" Baden is perfect for Faux "news."
Hypes his pet theories but got canned.
http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/10/why-to-be-skeptical-of-michael-baden-on-epsteins-death.html
jberryhill
(62,444 posts)The new "trusted source" on DU:
https://www.foxnews.com/person/b/michael-baden
Michael Baden is a Fox News contributor and joined the network in 2003. In this role, Dr. Baden provides FNC with expert analysis of medical, forensic and investigative aspects of unnatural death and injury, including homicide, suicide, accident and mass disasters (multiple shootings, terrorist attacks, hurricanes, fires, airplane crashes etc.).
That Fox News character is whom many DUers are choosing to believe.
Yonnie3
(17,500 posts)I was linking your post in GD. Thanks for pointing out the "expert source."
SergeStorms
(19,204 posts)or anything heard on FAUX Noise. It's not news, it's propaganda.
Yonnie3
(17,500 posts)jberryhill's GD post provides insight.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212652538
mitch96
(13,929 posts)stonecutter357
(12,697 posts)Response to rsacamano (Original post)
Chin music This message was self-deleted by its author.
Consider the source.
amcgrath
(397 posts)It is fair to say that the police, the FBI, intelligence agencies, prisons etc make mistakes all the time.
Clues are missed, or misinterpreted, police are not infallible, nor judges, nor prison guards or governors or psychiatrists.
However, in every high profile sexual abuse scandal the number of these errors often seems inordinately high. - it could be for a number of reasons, complexity of cases, people hesitant to report valuable information etc.
There is also a peculiar pattern to mistakes made. And that is that every mistake made benefits the protagonists.
When a national security file or computer holding files is lost we usually only hear, because somebody has found it in the wrong place. But in high profile paedophiles cases, files are only lost, never accidentally found.
Courts across the US make mistakes on a daily basis, I'm sure. But if you are poor or black, the mistakes will generally mean false imprisonment - even a death penalty. But for the rich white paedophile, every mistake means being given too lenient a sentence, or fine, or charges accidentally missed off the sheets, or victims not being informed of plea deals.
You can talk abut it coincidences, or happenstance, but from a purely mathematical standpoint, the chance of each error, that could go one of two ways, consistently favouring the protagonist does not follow the laws of chance.
If you had been flipping a coin for decades and only ever getting heads, you would suspect that something is wrong. And once you have lost your belief that something is purely chance, you have to suspect everything