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I feel like this exemplifies the phenomena we see in the news today, and over the past few years has been increasing. Anyone can just say something on the news,
by samschooler 6y ago
I feel like this exemplifies the phenomena we see in the news today, and over the past few years has been increasing. Anyone can just say something on the news, and get a bunch of attention and credibility.
But in order to disapprove it, we need a 10 year study, and multiple citations plus a large N value. Even then a lot of people won’t believe it nor will they take the science as a more credible source than the original person.
- video game violence causes real word violence
- vaccines cause autism
- insert conspiracy theory here
- Avamander 6y agoI think this isn't really a phenomena of we see in "news today", it's a really old problem but tech has made it much easier to have your voice heard. We have proverbial phrases about this, e.g. "One fool may ask more questions than ten wise men can answer." and all the different variations in other languages.