why aren't all 6 resolved? a statement only gets an assessment when the public
record can support or contradict it. opinions and what-ifs never can, and 0 checkable
ones are still open, waiting for their date. predictions held up or didn't;
assertions are supported or contradicted. on every card:
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Assertion Not checkable as stated
Weiss: Medical institutions push race-based care and teenage gender transitions
“In many hospitals and medical schools across the country, people were being told to do something very different, to mete out care based on race, to, you know, to shuffle young teenage girls especially toward irreversible Changes in their bodies and things of t…”
Opinion
Weiss: Mainstream journalists now see their job as guiding political views
“The job description as they see it is to usher you toward the correct political position.”
Disclosure
Weiss: The Free Press targets the broad "self-silencing majority"
“There are three sides that I see that are emerging, and I think the free press is trying to position itself in what I believe is the broad self-silencing Majority piece of the pie, which is to say there's a woke left, there's increasingly a woke right, and the…”
Assertion Contradicted
Weiss: 95% to 98% of New York Times readers are liberal
“Something like 95 to 98% of readers at the New York Times, and I'm choosing that only because it's the experience I know most intimately, regard themselves as liberals or progressives.”
Insight
Weiss: Building competing institutions is the only way to reform legacy media
“I've become someone who believes that the way to change those institutions Is not to give money to those places, or join the board of them, or delude yourself with the idea that you can transform them from within. It's to build new things, and in building new …”
Opinion
Weiss: "The Revolt of the Public" is the most important recent book
“Martin Goury has written about this absolutely brilliantly in his book, The Revolt of the Public, probably the most important book written in the last 25 years.”