if we only ever rely on the interpretations, then misunderstanding, or worse, can creep in, and we have apparent rifts that form
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the only way is to become scientifically literate enough to read the original research for yourself, and to make your own judgments
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you have choose to put in the time and effort, or else give up, and accept the fundamental epistemological uncertainty
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the recourse becomes that of trust, not of epistemological justification. do you *trust* this person to be reliably/truthful/etc?
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but trust is not truth. trust is not justification. its something thats often highly irrational. and so we get communities of trust
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communities, plural, because they segment from one another, separated by mutual distrust. but each is internally doing their best at "truth"
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i dont know how to overcome these problems. i can imagine a way to reify these communities of trust with technology into social "news" etc
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but i cant see a way to reconcile the distinct communities, how to achieve some kind of higher agreement on truth, using technology
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and I doubt that there's any way, technologically or not, to reliably tie what people believe to what's actually true
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so, accepting this, the only thing I can see making sense is to find ways to enable these trust communities to better function independently
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@psygnisfive Science is not an end, it's a way to X the shit out of something with better results than other values of X
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