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I think people usually give zero weight to conspiracy theories not because they're never true but because it's much likelier that the experts know better than y
by xmprt 5y ago
I think people usually give zero weight to conspiracy theories not because they're never true but because it's much likelier that the experts know better than you do.
- notriddle 5y agoAlso, because they’re trying to compensate for biases that cause people to see patterns where none exist.
- swader999 5y agoThis article shows how funding and fear of losing funding might have influenced all these experts to back the wrong narrative.
- silicon2401 5y agoThat's a logical fallacy: appeal to authority. Didn't the CDC claim that masks don't help against the virus just last year? Expertise didn't prevent them from (knowingly) making a false claim back then, and there's nothing wrong with healthy skepticism now.