>tenured university faculty. Educated people who's livelihood does not depend on saying the right thing. They get a high trustworthiness rating, right? No. The

>tenured university faculty. Educated people who's livelihood does not depend on saying the right thing. They get a high trustworthiness rating, right? No. They are just as biased and have just as selfish an agenda as anyone else. Consider this, all of the scientific papers out there that we are finding to be erroneous lately had been "peer reviewed". Well, guess who those "peers" were? We all have biases and agendas that leave us open to potentially compromising our integrity. Please don't misunderstand me, I'm not claiming to know how we should go about establishing authority in an environment devoid of trust. I'm just saying that I don't think it would be wise to simply assign automatic credibility to the government, or tenured academics, or police, or the clergy, or whatever else.