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Be careful what you wish for. Skepticism about official experts/science/the government is helping fake news a lot, eg here in Italy.

• gaius 9y ago
  Skepticism about official experts/science/the government They did kind of bring this on themselves, too much “fake news” of their own. A scientist doesn’t know any more about politics than you or I, an economist knows even less. People should be wary about trying to transfer credibility from one domain to an unrelated one.
• empath75 9y ago
  'healthy skepticism' My point was that teaching people to just trust what they read has lead them astray. They used to trust the 'mass media' who largely hewed to the 'the establishment' line. Now that the mass media isn't the only source of information for most people, they'll believe basically any nonsense. People should be skeptical of the establishment media. They should be skeptical of everything. What you need to teach people is how to properly apply skepticism to figure out what might or might not actually be true, and why.