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I mean, yes, I'm educated, realistically not everyone will be able to do what I do. I still think that "do your own research" is more respectful (even when it's targeted at people who probably won't) than "just listen to me, I'm one of the Elect."
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The condescension and noble lies seem to come mostly from bureaucrats not researchers. I can’t think of any active researcher who has the “one of the elect” posture. Mostly they just seem to struggle to communicate at all with laypeople.
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This seems orthogonal. It’s great when incentives and aptitude to solve a problem line up neatly. They rarely do. My point is “do your own research” is not a general solution in either case. The world is too complex for everyone to be an expert on everything that affects them.
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Indeed. I resent that I have to do literature reviews to have a chance that interacting with the medical system will not harm me. "Do your own research" is not a general solution, or even a good individual solution. However "trust experts" can be even worse as a general solution.
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I was wondering what your alternative to doing research was, and you've said it is "lowering expectations and standards", "mediocre compromises", "common sense least effort" and "half-ass an alt way" but I don't think I actually understand what that looks like in practice.
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