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It's one thing to value intellectual humility and be able to say "I don't know enough about this." I believe we should listen to the content of what an expert h
by bitshiftfaced 3y ago
It's one thing to value intellectual humility and be able to say "I don't know enough about this." I believe we should listen to the content of what an expert has found and think about the evidence and reasoning that they provide. But what you're describing sounds incompatible with the spirit of human curiosity. No one is saying that the average Joe will have a better understanding of the truth than a PhD researcher, but there's nothing wrong with Joe trying to understand the evidence for himself. Denying people the right to think for themselves, even if they come to the wrong conclusion, is paternalistic and anti-science in my view.
- synetic 3y agoYou read into what I wrote what isn’t there. I just pointed out, in my original comment, that the person who wrote the article may not be a qualified source of information. Everyone should be curious and also be discerning on who it is they get their information from. We have a lot of people in the U.S. who know nothing about microbiology, virology, medicine thinking they did the research because they read articles from quacks. They think that by reading enough words that this constitutes doing the research. My retort to you was, in essence, to say that most of us aren’t qualified to decide for ourselves simply because a bunch of charts were given in the article.