This idea definitely takes on new meaning depending on which lense you’re looking through. My first feeling was in agreement with the article because I was cons

This idea definitely takes on new meaning depending on which lense you’re looking through. My first feeling was in agreement with the article because I was considering the religious background in which I was brought up. My worldview changed — for the better I would argue — after I really made a conscious effort to examine my own beliefs. It took courage for me to step outside of the group and pursue independent thought. The more I read this article, the more uncomfortable I began feeling with the tone it had, which I could see being used by the conspiracy/anti-science types of the world. This idea that we all believe crazy ideas as a result of overconfident experts is the same fallacy addressed by Isaac Asimov in his essay “The Relativity of Wrong” [1]. The whole thing is worth a read, but I’ll include the most relevant passage below. > In short, my English Lit friend, living in a mental world of absolute rights and wrongs, may be imagining that because all theories are wrong, the earth may be thought spherical now, but cubical next century, and a hollow icosahedron the next, and a doughnut shape the one after. What actually happens is that once scientists get hold of a good concept they gradually refine and extend it with greater and greater subtlety as their instruments of measurement improve. Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete. [1] https://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.html https://chem.tufts.edu/AnswersInScience/RelativityofWrong.ht...