> The only requirement is for ideas to be popular within a large community that finds them legitimate. We live in a community and aren’t individually capable o

> The only requirement is for ideas to be popular within a large community that finds them legitimate. We live in a community and aren’t individually capable of mastering all these modern competencies. The healthy way to manage these burdens is to share them with community members and to trade on faith or credibility. We can’t all be empiricists. Unfortunately communities can vary drastically in the number of lawyers, doctors, dentists, and scientists made available, and some have become thoroughly infected with misinformation, such as anti-COVID folks.