Reply to a Facebook accuser

I posted the AIDS orphans story on Facebook. My wife reposted it on her FB page. She got a comment from an Arkansas acquaintance who questioned anyone’s use of Gateway Pundit as a source. She referenced Wikipedia in her allegations of “fake news” and “right-wing bias.” You have to admit, there is an irony in using Wikipedia as a source in bias accusations. 

I replied to the writer:

I worked on five daily newspapers in Texas for 15 years. I also was in military intelligence for a few years. One of the similarities of the two has to do with sources. Information comes from varying sources. A good journalist and a good intelligence analyst will take information from a source and then look for conformation or contradiction by searching other sources, if possible. When reading the story of tests done on AIDS babies, I searched and read several articles confirming the Gateway Pundit story. Among those were the World Tribune and the Associated Press. Leftist organizations calling themselves neutral have alleged right-wing bias against the World Tribune. No one would or could accuse the Associated Press of that alleged bias. If you want to disbelieve the source, fine. But before making accusations, you should search the basis of the stories. Tests on AIDS babies is not fake news. Also not fake news is the death of more than 100 of the 532 babies. Scientists and physicians conducting the tests in part believed they were doing the right thing, because the babies didn’t really matter, since their mothers were low class drug users and black. Look below the surface of medical researchers and you will find eugenicists and eugenics. Ruth Bader Ginsberg was a eugenicist, and I would bet Fauci is as well.