EXDAC, "
Why
" because anyone can makeup credentials just as much as they choose to disbelieve a credible
post. "
that anyone can post anything they want, under any anonymous cover, and never have to defend their views or get called out for being wrong." At best, providing justification for what is posted, opposed to unsubstantiated opinion could be a basis of peer review. Unfortunately this the "
Google-fueled, Wikipedia-based, blog-sodden" world today.
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So what can we do? Not much, sadly, since this is a cultural and generational issue that will take a long time come right, if it ever does.
every discussion must take place within limits and above a certain baseline of competence."
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when citizens forgo their basic obligation to learn enough to actually govern themselves, and instead remain stubbornly imprisoned by their fragile egos and caged by their own sense of entitlement, experts will end up running things by default."
https://thefederalist.com/2014/01/17...-of-expertise/
Remember: having a strong opinion about something isnt the same as knowing something.