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No but anyone can make an argument. There are not enough resources to evaluate every argument or position put forward by every random crackpot. That is why cred
by bitdizzy 6y ago
No but anyone can make an argument. There are not enough resources to evaluate every argument or position put forward by every random crackpot. That is why credibility is a thing. If we could all spend as much time as necessary to evaluate every position, however specious, then we wouldn't need credibility.
But when visibility can be bought by moneyed interests, then public discourse starts to break down. Here is where credibility needs to be established to sieve out self-interested propaganda.
- aww_dang 6y ago>That is why credibility is a thing. https://www.influencewatch.org/organization/desmogblog/ https://www.influencewatch.org/organization/desmogblog/ "On February 14, 2012 DeSmogBlog posted internal budget, fundraising, and strategy documents from the free-market, anthropogenic-climate-change-skeptic think tank Heartland Institute which were stolen from the organization, one of which was falsified. Others may have been altered. Six days later, Pacific Institute President Peter Gleick admitted to stealing the documents by impersonating a board member, and receiving the materials via email directly from the Heartland Institute." "In 2007, Lefebvre pleaded guilty to a conspiracy charge related to handling billions of dollars in illegal gambling proceeds through his company, NETeller." "Littlemore admitted to Mann that DeSmogBlog is “all about PR here, not much about science." http://leftexposed.org/2016/08/desmogblog/ http://leftexposed.org/2016/08/desmogblog/ >Here is where credibility needs to be established to sieve out self-interested propaganda. Do you believe that there are no moneyed interests on the other side?