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> If you take all fringe hypothesis and claims posted online, you'll find time and time again that so many of them are wrong, and not just by a margin, but ofte
by pessimizer 3y ago
> If you take all fringe hypothesis and claims posted online, you'll find time and time again that so many of them are wrong, and not just by a margin, but often times ridiculously far off.
This isn't something you should do, because it is not sensible. If you ask 10,000 people what two plus two equals, then write out a list of all of the unique answers you get, 99% of them will be wrong.
- didibus 3y agoYes, that's my point. So if you need to predict which conclusion is more likely the actual reality, picking the one made by more experienced individuals on the subject, who have spent more time studying, experimenting and observing the matter, and for which a multitude of those individuals all independently arrive at a similar conclusion, and where they provide extensive rationale through published papers for why and how they arrive at that conclusion (expert consensus), is more sensible, than trying to randomly pick from all the fringe conclusions posted online, or even from picking to the one that went the most "viral" and got reposted most. Even if, much later, those same experts realize they were wrong, and it turned out one of those fringe conclusions online was actually right.