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Trust isn't only about credentials (or competence which credentials are supposedly meant to be a proxy for), but also honesty. Get caught lying (or being gener
by tbrownaw 3y ago
Trust isn't only about credentials (or competence which credentials are supposedly meant to be a proxy for), but also honesty.
Get caught lying (or being generally sus, like say trying to hide conflicts of interest) enough times, and it doesn't matter if you're actually competent (or credentialed).
- defrost 3y ago> or being generally sus, like say trying to hide conflicts of interest Good point. It's worth reminding all that the vast overwhelming bulk of vaccine and COVID disinformation trafficking on twitter and social media could all be traced back to about 12 individual sources who were SEO'ing madly to sow distrust and sell their own brands of snake oil.