Some of the loudest Proponents of Science — an identity moreso than a descriptor — are scientifically illiterate. If you say stuff like "there's a consensus in the field" or "this has been established for 50 years," and can't go any deeper than that, you're just chanting doctrine
IMO, both amateurs and professionals (broadly) need to embrace a much stronger sense of personal & systemic fallibility. Knowing "better" isn't a terribly useful frame — better to understand what you know, what you don't know, and how to make sense of your observations in context
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Younger Josh would agree with that passionately. Older Josh recognizes that the problems you are describing are limitations of human psychology. We aren't wired to find Truth. We're wired to build social coalitions.
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Of course that's not to say that pointing out the problem isn't useful. I'm just not sure we have any great ways to fix it.
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