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# The BFD Comment of the Week
- URL: https://goodoil.news/the-bfd-comment-of-the-week-70/
- Published: 2022-09-06T00:15:00.000Z
- Updated: 2022-09-05T06:03:44.000Z
- Author: Good Oil Staff
- Tags: NZ, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-16 22:48

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Today’s comment was written by **[idbkiwi](https://disqus.com/by/idbkiwi/?ref=goodoil.news)** Thank you idbkiwi for taking the time to craft such an interesting comment.

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Beyond bemusement, I’m now simply appalled by the media campaign of thuggery towards anti-mandate sympathisers which continues apace in *Stuff* today, opening with a deliberate lie:

> “The bar for this election transparency project is very high. These would-be politicians (and in some cases sitting councillors) must have demonstrated a track record in spreading and amplifying a tide of falsehoods and social media lies, violent rhetoric or hate speech.”

Really? Only yesterday, in a disgraceful slander, *Stuff* took the torches, pitchforks and kosh to WCC candidate Nicholas Hancox, a musician (violist with the NZSO) who has not amplified a “a tide of falsehoods and social media lies, violent rhetoric or hate speech” but simply exhibited the treasonous temerity to stand by his views and make them known in a principled and intelligent manner, somewhat of a foreign country to *Stuff.*

Daring to email fellow musicians in explaining his stance Hancox cited “various journal articles, one claiming that increases in Covid-19 cases were unrelated to levels of vaccination”. Oh dear me, that will never do. The “one” article actually appeared in the European Journal of Epidemiology, hardly a lightweight, titled *‘Increases in COVID-19 are unrelated to levels of vaccination across 68 countries and 2947 counties in the United States’* for which *Stuff* curiously provide no link, but in refutation of said article provide three links, all three of which loosely agree with the original article’s findings but criticise methodology or likewise.

*Stuff* is too juvenile to understand that’s called science: postulate and refute, postulate and refute, repeat, repeat until we come to a broader understanding.

*Stuff,* like our prime minister only do the refute, deny the premise, decline to accept, put their fingers in their ears, and call people names:

> “Stuff is drawing attention to these candidates because they cannot distinguish fairytales from reality. They are anti-science. They lack critical thinking and sound judgment.”

Pot, kettle, kettle, pot.

No balance, no science, *Stuff* are not just fake-news, they are news-frauds, thugs and petty slanderers.

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