UPDATE: The detailed content of this article was removed to comply with the policies of the predominant ad serving network that is utilized on CARDINAL NEWS.
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NOTE: This article (which had 3.1K shares before its modification to comply with ad-serving network policy) previously documented the existence of a documentary by Epoch Times that covered the debate involving the investigation of Natural Virus Evolution vs. Lab-Made Virus regarding the COVID-19 pandemic that began in 2019. When the title for this article was re-titled (along with the content modified), the sharing stats were reset to zero count. The article, before modification, was archived without ads from the ad-serving network on Globalconflictmaps.com (a CARDINAL NEWS website).
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If you are seeking information about the origin of the COVID-19 pandemic, CARDINAL NEWS recommends you search Google, YouTube, CDC, WHO and Wikipedia for details with a search such as “origin of COVID-19.” Of course, you can also search Epoch Times on your own.
CARDINAL NEWS apologizes to readers for the redaction and minimal amount of details about the origin of COVID-19 available in this updated article.
CARDINAL NEWS also apologizes to readers as our news article production (flow of fresh articles) was interrupted, hindered and/or delayed, and the process to comply consumed considerable time and energy to determine the root of the problem described by the ad-serving network, and while attempting to rectify the problem and comply with the policies of the ad-serving network.
CARDINAL NEWS also apologizes to advertisers and the ad-serving network for any misunderstanding or lack of oversight or lack of careful screening of the possible implications of content that was available from CARDINAL NEWS that sourced content available from the documentary from Epoch Times.
NOTE: The original title of this article was: “Controversial Epoch Times Releases Documentary: ‘Tracking Down the Origin of [REDACTED] Coronavirus'” because this article referred to information produced in the actual documentary by Epoch Times, and this article subsequently quoted the exact title name from Epoch Times. The term that was redacted here is considered xenophobic by some people, and violated a program policy of the ad-serving network that is predominantly used on CARDINAL NEWS. The ad-serving network program declared a ‘must fix’ order and disabled ads on this article.
Rather than prolonging the risk of violating program policies with the ad-serving network by trying to fix the content to comply with program policies, CARDINAL NEWS made the decision to remove the content. The ad-serving network did not offer a two-way dialogue, but merely offered an alert with instructions to remove content or remove ads associated on the same page as the content and sent a confirmation NO-REPLY email. Therefore, perfecting the article to acceptable ad-serving network program policies would have required a continual series of submission of reviews while guessing how to correct the article. To date, there is no understanding whether the problem with the article was the quotation of the xenophobic term, or the mention of the content from Epoch times that may have been considered contradictory to “authoritative, scientific consensus” … or both. CARDINAL NEWS concedes that the term considered to be xenophobic (although not intended), did not need to be in the CARDINAL NEWS article title. However, it would be disappointing to find that an article describing both sides of the investigation of Natural Virus Evolution vs. Lab-Made Virus regarding the COVID-19 pandemic would trigger an ad-serving network policy violation.
The ad-serving network declared the article contained “Dangerous or derogatory content” that “relates to a current, major health crisis and contradicts authoritative, scientific consensus.” Ads were disabled on the article, and there was conflicting information regarding whether only the article was affected by disabled ads, or whether the entire website was eventually at risk of having ads disabled if the “must fix” policy was not rectified. Keep in mind that this article (before modification) included two opposing sides of the debate involving Natural Virus Evolution vs. Lab-Made Virus regarding the origin COVID-19 pandemic, and did not endorse either side of the debate. The article did not contain any information regarding vaccines or COVID-19 medical treatments, so there was no risk of publishing harmful information for individuals’ personal health plans or personal medical planning and decision-making.
Ironically, the ad-serving network policy violation alert for the CARDINAL NEWS article on the debate of Natural Virus Evolution vs. Lab-Made Virus arrived in the CARDINAL NEWS inbox the same week that the House Committee on Oversight and Reform published an announcement that the committee is demanding documents and testimony on COVID-19 origins on Wednesday, December 14, 2022.
CARDINAL NEWS immediately responded to the issues declared by the ad-serving network. This article was modified to remove the alleged xenophobic term and the Epoch Times content on Thursday, December 15, 2022, and CARDINAL NEWS is awaiting the case to be marked as resolved for correction on [FUTURE DATE AND TIME] by the ad-serving network following a friendly alert by the ad-serving network on Tuesday, December 13, 2022.
CARDINAL NEWS has developed two websites (publicsafetyreporter.com and globalconflictmaps.com) that are designed to have the capability to archive any articles with ad-serving network policy violations in order to offload them from Arlingtoncardinal.com, or publish original articles and aggregate articles that are anticipated to have the potential to trigger policy violations.
Publicsafetyreporter.com publishes local news and US & World news focusing primarily on public safety news about Fire, Rescue and EMS call in the United States and the world. Publicsafetyreporter.com is designed so that ads from the ad-serving network can be eliminated from specific articles to avoid policy violations.
Globalconflictmaps.com publishes local news and US & World news focusing primarily on conflicts that arise — ranging from political spats to military wars. Globalconflictmaps.com is designed so that ads from the ad-serving network can be eliminated from specific articles to avoid policy violations.
Regarding CARDINAL NEWS, Arlingtoncardinal.com has historically experienced the ad-serving network enforcing compliance by one of three following methods:
limiting ads on videos (showing less ads than normal),
publisher restriction: limiting ads from a specific website article (with no ‘must fix’ order), or
policy violation: removing ads entirely from a specific website article (with a ‘must fix’ order).
For example, the ad-serving network has previously limited ads on a video that showed an auto theft in progress from a repair shop surveillance video camera over the parking lot of the business. Even though there were no shots fired and no weapons shown during the video capture of the auto theft in progress, ads were limited on the video because it was considered too violent. If the ad-serving network determines that their advertisers don’t want to be visible adjacent to an auto theft in progress, that is their right in their business operations. However, the question exists whether the ad-serving network is being fair among all publishers, or if the ad-serving network is being capricious. Nevertheless, compliance is important to CARDINAL NEWS, especially on articles that receive the “must fix” order. If memory and recall are correct, there have only been two articles that received a “must fix” order since Arlingtoncardinal.com was first published on September 12, 2001. Ad-serving began after 2001 because the initial release of the ad-serving network began in 2003.
Please know that the CARDINAL NEWS mission is to continue to elevate the understanding that science is a methodology that continuously tests accepted understanding of health, medicine and the world and universe around us. CARDINAL NEWS understands this: While science application involves careful selection of reliable and ethical authorities, science itself does not involve ‘faith’ in an authority, except in having dynamic confidence in authorities that follow and apply the scientific method.
“Trust the Science” is an oxymoron
Note that science (and applied medicine) is not something that involves beliefs or faith, but science is a systematic enterprise that questions and tests, and dynamically builds and organizes information in procedures of ongoing contestable cycles of predictions and updated explanations. Primary sources or case stories from an individual, may be part of a first stage that generates the description of the problem prior to creating the hypotheses in the scientific method of research studies and experimentation. In other words, hypotheses don’t usually pop out of thin air.
Process of Scientific Method
Observation, Describe a Problem, and Formulation of a Question
Hypothesis (a proposed explanation for a phenomenon, also known as an observable event; and a scientific hypothesis is a hypothesis that is possible to test using the scientific method)
Prediction
Testing
Analysis
Conclusion (often subject to external review, sharing, refining the hypotheses and re-experimentation). Even with a Conclusion, a true scientist never trusts the science, but is prepared to start over or build on previous research to test the refined or next hypothesis.