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People who said the web was untrustworthy were being reductive. IME late 90s high school, they taught us the Internet is like any source, you have to rely on da
by paulryanrogers 3y ago
People who said the web was untrustworthy were being reductive. IME late 90s high school, they taught us the Internet is like any source, you have to rely on data or at least expert sources and cite them.
- wolverine876 3y ago> IME late 90s high school, they taught us the Internet is like any source, you have to rely on data or at least expert sources and cite them. Do you see people doing that now? I don't. People overwhelmingly believe, repeat, or just blithely fabricate nonsense - the latter really is amazing to see. In a recent HN thread someone confidently wrote a few paragraphs explaining some physiology. That sat up there for maybe a day, and it was easy to believe. Then a researcher in the field explained it, and the first person was very wrong (the researcher was very polite).