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Yes, 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
by didibus 3y ago
Yes, 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.