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Honest question: What do you expect? For me, as an example, "Prove me wrong" sounds a little bit hollow if you have not tried yourself and described the process
by kappuchino 4y ago
Honest question: What do you expect? For me, as an example, "Prove me wrong" sounds a little bit hollow if you have not tried yourself and described the process. I've grown up and was educated to "self-falsification": You should proove either the opposite or find the strongest arguments against your cause. And it taught me to be cautious about polar arguments/postions (like yours).
- hedora 4y agoI've looked. I've debated conservatives, read the things they quoted, and tried to fact check both sides. The conservative arguments I've seen recently are either directly falsifiable (e.g., high vaccine death rates, voter fraud), or suffer from tranparent logical fallacies (most climate change denial). I haven't seen a conservative outlet that cites reputable primary sources in a long, long time. Decades ago, it was easy to find conservative news outlets that didn't have these problems. I honestly don't know where they went. Some sibling comments pointed at things to read. I'll check them out.
- cato_the_elder 4y ago> Decades ago, it was easy to find conservative news outlets that didn't have these problems. I honestly don't know where they went. I think you are missing something here: a lot of conservatives feel kinda the same about the liberal sources. I'm not old enough to have direct experience of how things were decades ago, but I was recently reading an old book about Reagan by a bunch of NYT correspondents. They didn't seem nearly as biased as today's NYT journalists do. Another example is CNN. I vaguely feel that it must've been much better during the Walter Isaacson era.