1 ene 2023 año - Wikipedia: False balance and false compromise

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False balance, also bothsidesism, is a media bias in which journalists present an issue as being more balanced between opposing viewpoints than the evidence supports.

False balance is a bias which usually stems from an attempt to avoid bias and gives unsupported or dubious positions an illusion of respectability. It creates a public perception that some issues are scientifically contentious, though in reality they may not be, therefore creating doubt about the scientific state of research, and can be exploited by interest groups such as corporations like the fossil fuel industry or the tobacco industry, or ideologically motivated activists such as vaccination opponents or creationists.

Examples of false balance in reporting on science issues include the topics of human-caused climate change versus natural climate variability, the health effects of tobacco...

False compromise is related:

Argument to moderation (Latin: argumentum ad temperantiam)—also known as false compromise, argument from middle ground, and the golden mean fallacy—is the fallacy that the truth is always in the middle of two opposites.

An example would be that John thinks that all pigs can fly. Mary thinks that no pigs can fly. Therefore, they incorrectly conclude that the truth must be somewhere in the middle in that some pigs can fly.

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