> You would think common sense prevails... Appeals to common sense seem to underlie many of the "alternative facts" in the zeitgeist. "Common sense" is how pe

> You would think common sense prevails... Appeals to common sense seem to underlie many of the "alternative facts" in the zeitgeist. "Common sense" is how people defend their views when they can't do it empirically. That's not always bad, but "common sense" is probably part of the problem.