from reddit: "I'm just a layperson here, but as a strong believer in science it's awfully difficult for me to reject expert opinion based on some uninformed 'hunch'." this entire attitude upsets me. try thinking! with your own head! about what makes the most sense!
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Replying to @sonyasupposedly
It highlights that for most people, a belief in science does not actually mean that they believe in rationality, but in ordained authority. Same psychological mechanism, different church.
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we get the opportunity to play scientist in narrow slices of reality, otherwise we get to drink the output collective koolaid what i mean to say is we can't validate everything and are stuck trusting authority, most cited article, or top search result
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maybe some of the antidote to this is sense making communities, who can collectively verify more than an individual can and bootstrap new comers
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