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This is an embarrassing question to be asking with the implication that the skeptical are at fault. Our institutions and experts have been so incomprehensibly
by ralusek 4y ago
This is an embarrassing question to be asking with the implication that the skeptical are at fault.
Our institutions and experts have been so incomprehensibly incompetent over the last half decade, that it is morally and intellectually irresponsible to not approach nearly everything they say or do as simply another data point at best. Gospel? Absolutely not.
- DoItToMe81 4y agoI remember when American experts claimed that Iraq had masses of WMDs. After being lied to for so long and with such disastrous consequences, I'm not surprised people have (unfortunately often to kneejerk extremes) taken 'experts' with a grain of salt.
- ss108 4y agoI believe there was some vigorous opposition to the Iraq War and its premise by many experts, but they got drowned out in the jingoism, no? In any case, I don't know how it's justifiable for anyone to say "Colin Powell fucked up, so now I don't trust experts"