When often people who say they don't trust experts assert this as a kind of principle which exempts them from further work.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
They don't need to look into what justification an expert gives for her opinion or compare it with any others. Expert = bad.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
Which is not at all what you mean. You're referring to a healthily sceptical attitude which requires further investigation.
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Replying to @HPluckrose
Yeah, I just tweeted a thread out in explanation.
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Replying to @christianjbdev
I know what you mean. Wasn't sure you realised ppl hear that phrase most often from postmodernists & anti-intellectuals.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
And you got me thinking abt how to define the difference between the two principles of distrust.
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I know what you mean, I think, and it's not easy!
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Replying to @christianjbdev @HPluckrose
One thing I was thinking of today - what if people *do* trust the media, but the media is Fox News?
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Quite. This is why I get so angry with pomos. They present confidence in any knowledge as equivalent to trusting Fox News.
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Replying to @HPluckrose @christianjbdev
They present themselves as doubting everything & science as trusting in things for a patriarchal, imperialistic agenda.
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Whereas they are the ones who are certain for no good reason & (good) scientists the ones who doubt everything.
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