"Certainly it would be better to have an informed and well educated citizenry. " Of course it would, but there's no way for people to 'stay informed' on the mu

"Certainly it would be better to have an informed and well educated citizenry. " Of course it would, but there's no way for people to 'stay informed' on the multitude of various things. The system we live in is fundamentally based on legitimate authority. We have no reasonable way to try to debate with our doctors, dentists, lawyers, engineers. It's literally why they exist - to understand, internalize and work with the inherent truth in a system. We trust them, that's the way it works. So how does a system that is inherently grey, be 'wrong a lot of time' but 'right in others' in a manner that is consequential (i.e. vaccines, climate change). That's a tough social problem.