I am sympathetic with your point of view, but I find myself in a position of what Scott Alexander calls “epistemic learned helplessness”[0]. My powers of unders

I am sympathetic with your point of view, but I find myself in a position of what Scott Alexander calls “epistemic learned helplessness”[0]. My powers of understanding the correct method of scientific research are limited. I understand that there must be some studies that are done correctly, but I don’t know which ones. I assume that these are the older studies that haven’t been refuted or retracted after a long time. So I end up trying to trust new research that doesn’t seem to stem from a conflict of interest… although it makes sense to me that things that researchers have some interest in, somehow, are the things that they study. It’s a very neat trap I find myself in! Nothing for it but to become intimately familiar with the methods of scientific research? 0. https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/03/repost-epistemic-learned-helplessness/ https://slatestarcodex.com/2019/06/03/repost-epistemic-learn...