PolitiFact’s COVID Fact-Checker Revealed to Have Zero Scientific or Medical Background

Conservative News DailyJanuary 2, 2023

Politifact’s COVID fact-checker has SOME medical experience … right? RIGHT?!

Wrong.

Nope. It’s not even a little.

Crazy, right? You’d THINK a supposed fact-checking site like Politifact would want the person working on COVID disinformation to have a teensy weensy bit of experience in the medical field. We’re not talking a doctor or a nurse or anything, but even a medical writer or someone who took more than Health in college.

We are here.

You can check out this thread by @TexasLindsay on Jeff Cercone

1. Meet Jeff.

For what it’s worth, Jeff looks like a nice guy. I’m even willing to bet that Jeff wakes up everyday and tries his best to do his job, despite his shortcomings and lack of credentials to do so. pic.twitter.com/nVsCz6apAb

— TexasLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) January 1, 2023

Looks like a nice guy … does he though?

Keep going.

2. Jeff, as you can see, is an a…” “Fact-Checker” Politifact, and is paid to discredit Covid misinformation. So one might ask what are Jeff’s qualification?

1) Is Jeff a doctor? No.
2) Is Jeff a scientist? No.
3. Does he have an academic degree? No.
4) Does the candidate have any experience in medicine? No. pic.twitter.com/qixq4QBSku

— TexasLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) January 1, 2023

He was a writer for the Chicago Tribune, and the South Florida Sun-Sentinel.

Heh.

3. Jeff is a wordsmith for all intents. A profile photo of Jeff as a dog is included, along with a list of his journalistic contributions. pic.twitter.com/j2uVhs6ViQ

— TexasLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) January 1, 2023

Opinion and editorial.

It’s just so.

4. Jeff, as I mentioned before, is probably a nice man, but Jeff is only one in a multitude of. ‘False Fact-Checking Prophets’ They are currently the biggest problem in society. They are all paid to discredit inconvenient truths, and mislead public.

— TexasLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) January 1, 2023

That’s why it doesn’t matter if Jeff has any background in medicine because it’s not really about the facts, it’s about sticking to the narrative.

5. Jeff’s recent fact-check is an example of his work. Jeff rated this tweet “Remarkable.” “FALSE”:

The Tweet vs. The Fact Check pic.twitter.com/SKHQ8e5LTH

— TexasLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) January 1, 2023

Wow.

6. How did Jeff get to the? “False” conclusion? Well, weirdly it’s unclear since the evidence he presented to supposedly support a “False” claim, which directly contradicts his conclusion but actually confirms the original @hodgetwins tweet. pic.twitter.com/trR80v4Lp9

— TexasLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) January 1, 2023

But the Hodgetwins lean Right so of course, anything they say will be false in Jeff’s echo chamber.

7. One might wonder:
—Are ‘False Fact-Checking Prophets’ Are you just completely inept?
Or
—Are ‘False Fact-Checking Prophets’ Do you rely on the ineptitude and willfulness of the public?

One could make a strong case for one or both.

— TexasLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) January 1, 2023

We will be going with BOTH.

8. There’s also another recent fact-check that was also concluded as “False” Jeff. This was in reference to a post on social media claiming that strokes/clots in athletes could be a side effect from vaccines. pic.twitter.com/2erEqLgeUO

— TexasLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) January 1, 2023

So concludes the medical EXPERT.

9. One of the mentioned athletes suffered a stroke from a blood clot. So did Jeff find evidence proving it wasn’t caused by a C•19 vaccine? No. Doctors said they weren’t able to determine a cause. How can this vaccine be ruled out of possibility? It can’t. Jeff therefore lied by omission. pic.twitter.com/lB1csKXu5k

— TexasLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) January 1, 2023

That approved narrative ain’t gonna support itself ya’ know.

10. And another of the athletes aforementioned, doesn’t support his false label either—and further validates he should have labeled it as inconclusive/unknown since Jeff was unable to explicitly rule out if the blood clots in her lungs were caused by the C•19 shot or not. pic.twitter.com/negyPQUVYR

— TexasLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) January 1, 2023

11. If Jeff was a pathologist, vaccinologist or treated any of the athletes, then we might view it as his medical opinion, but he’s not. Jeff is a propagandist who discredits inconvenient facts at the cost of misleading the general public. #DefundFactCheckers

— TexasLindsay™ (@TexasLindsay_) January 1, 2023

Let’s not pretend Jeff is at all unique – the entire fact-checking ‘industry’ Is that even a thing? It is not about sticking to facts, but sticking to a story. They are puzzled why we point at them and laugh at their mistakes.

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