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If public health experts are caught being deceptive in one case, or the media publishes as truth something that ends up being political propaganda- even once -
by thorum 2y ago
If public health experts are caught being deceptive in one case, or the media publishes as truth something that ends up being political propaganda- even once - they lose trust and people will correctly choose to treat future information from that source with skepticism.
- JohnBooty 2y agoeven once This isn't realistic in the slightest, and is the diametric opposite of "correct." What information source is one hundred percent accurate? By this standard, people can't trust literally any source at all. This is an absolutely sick and objectively poor way of thinking and wind up just sort of believing whatever they want to believe. Whatever feels good, or, is the least bad. Or feels bad, but gives them a sort of predictable sort of bad feeling -- rage and an ill defined sort of aggreivement about some sort of ill defined state of affairs that has been denied to them by ill defined people for ill defined reasons -- that is at least preferable to the work of actually knowing things and understanding how anything works. So are they Fox News people, or have they moved on to the harder stuff?