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To me, it seems like there's a failure to differentiate bad-faith skepticism. There's malicious "I know what I'm saying is a lie / broken argument, but I'm wil
by ethbr0 5y ago
To me, it seems like there's a failure to differentiate bad-faith skepticism.
There's malicious "I know what I'm saying is a lie / broken argument, but I'm willing to make it because my righteousness / beliefs justify winning." (Fixable with... nothing?)
But there's also ignorant "I don't understand the foundations of this information, and so arrive at an erroneous conclusion." (Fixable with education)
One of the failures of scientific proponents (especially pop scientific proponents) has been to treat the second group as synonymous with the first.
- hnaccount141 5y agoThis is a great point, and one that I wish was more widely understood. In my anecdotal experience at least the latter group by far outnumbers the former, and treating the "good faith but poorly informed" group as you would the bad faith group is nearly always counterproductive.