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Agreed, although there exists the problem where it's a lot easier to produce bullshit than refute it. Perhaps it's just a reality we must contend with.
by katzgrau 5y ago
Agreed, although there exists the problem where it's a lot easier to produce bullshit than refute it. Perhaps it's just a reality we must contend with.
- scantis 5y agoTherefore information to refute BS becomes more valuable. That it's easy to lie is not a sufficient argument for censorship.
- tzs 5y agoNo one has yet proposed a mechanism other than some form of censorship that actually works to deal with the problem of the amount of BS totally overwhelming the time and ability of the average person to have even a ghost of chance of telling what is BS and what is not, except perhaps by becoming sufficiently authoritarian so take away the rights and powers of people to make decisions that believing the bullshit would affect. But sufficiently authoritarian regimes usually also heavily censor, so you still end up censorship even in that case. I'd love to hear an alternative that is actually known to work for societies that are both large and have near zero costs to produce and widely spread information.
- HKH2 5y agoI haven't yet read or heard a single argument for why Robert Malone is wrong. Not even a weak one. All I've seen so far are appeals to authority.
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- ekianjo 5y ago> easier to produce bullshit than refute it. This goes both ways
- tzs 5y agoWhat would going both ways be in this case?
- Mountain_Skies 5y agoWhat is your opinion on cloth masks and has that been your opinion throughout the pandemic? If not, why did it change and why was it different previously?