Hedged claims are ones written with attribution or uncertainty
(“reportedly”, “according to”). A higher rate is
not a fault: it is often careful sourcing.
How these are measured.
🔮 Shapiro accused Kennedy of spreading falsehoods about vaccines, while Kennedy suggested the deaths may have been “fabricated” and that Shapiro was seeking to profit from them politically. assertive
🔮 “Maybe it’s going to come out that she died from something unrelated and it was just a coincidence” that she worked in an anti-plague lab, said Lisa Morici, a microbiologist and immunologist in the Tulane University School of Medicine. assertive
🔮 “I would bet that this goes on for at least another three to six months,” said Dr. John Goldman, an infectious disease expert at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. assertive
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