If you’re asking “who” rather than “what evidence”, then you’re doing it wrong.
You can’t run a civilized country without a reverence for “truth” and punishment for “lies”. Science is the first thing to go, after that democracy.
In a perfect world, we’d have the ability to gather all the evidence ourselves. In reality, we can’t become experts on everything and rerun every experiment, so sometimes we go by the simple “This guy’s usually right on this type of thing. ” heuristic. Finding that guy is getting harder though.
“For the rest of us, the answer isn’t to shut our ears to elite voices and rally around right-wing media. I hope that we remain skeptical of voices on our own side.”
Ahh, but also don’t fall into the same trap of, “which styles itself as cognitively and morally superior.” Because all of media that isn’t explicitly right wing is literal DNC propaganda.
I have a rule of thumb. If a news organization lies – not merely wrong, but knowing the truth and denying it – even once, I never believe a word they say again.
If you’re asking “who” rather than “what evidence”, then you’re doing it wrong.
You can’t run a civilized country without a reverence for “truth” and punishment for “lies”. Science is the first thing to go, after that democracy.
In a perfect world, we’d have the ability to gather all the evidence ourselves. In reality, we can’t become experts on everything and rerun every experiment, so sometimes we go by the simple “This guy’s usually right on this type of thing. ” heuristic. Finding that guy is getting harder though.
“For the rest of us, the answer isn’t to shut our ears to elite voices and rally around right-wing media. I hope that we remain skeptical of voices on our own side.”
Ahh, but also don’t fall into the same trap of, “which styles itself as cognitively and morally superior.” Because all of media that isn’t explicitly right wing is literal DNC propaganda.
I have a rule of thumb. If a news organization lies – not merely wrong, but knowing the truth and denying it – even once, I never believe a word they say again.
Me, you can believe me… 😉