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Do you think that articles, television shows, print columns, etc that treat things like the moon landing or the holocaust as items up for debate, and which give
by WaxProlix 3y ago
Do you think that articles, television shows, print columns, etc that treat things like the moon landing or the holocaust as items up for debate, and which give equal merit & time to the "two sides" of that debate, are somehow valid? Your ability to find real evidence is going to be DDOS'd by their ability to absolutely make shit up. And you're going to enable a lot of chemtrail bullshit, but also a lot of really virulent nasty racism.
Giving these very stupid views access to the same platform as any rational actor, placing them in the same context as - or even right next to - real actual science or history, is such a poor choice.
- brutusborn 3y agoNo, they are not debates but diatribes. They are usually one sided and have shitty ‘experts’ because the best experts refuse to go on them or are scared of being taken out of context The best solution is long form debates where the whole thing is available, so each party cannot be taken out of context. If you don’t have these kind of debates people looking for heterodox views will find them anyway and an ‘entertainment’ industry spouting bullshit is created. You don’t need to put all heterodox views in textbooks, but they shouldn’t be generally shunned because it is counterproductive.
- mistermann 3y agoAs Joe Rogan says about people with black belts in Jiu Jitsu: there are levels among black belts. You, like many "smart" people, have an air of confidence about you...but if you really think about it, you think there aren't people out there that couldn't absolutely ragdoll you on the intellectual equivalent of a Jiu Jitsu mat, if the above is the type of game you bring?