USA ONE@lemmy.world to politics @lemmy.world · 11 months agoHealth officials push to get schoolchildren vaccinated as more U.S. parents opt outwww.pilotonline.comexternal-linkmessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1217arrow-down15
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minus-squarechitak166@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up3arrow-down22·11 months agoIf experts were always right, you’d have a point. But history has shown that experts will routinely abuse their position of authority to exploit those who do not know any better.
minus-squareagent_flounder@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up11arrow-down1·11 months agoAll the more reason to teach people more reliable ways of evaluating claims and information. Then, when an expert—or more likely, a politician—spreads bullshit, people will be better equipped to detect it.
If experts were always right, you’d have a point.
But history has shown that experts will routinely abuse their position of authority to exploit those who do not know any better.
All the more reason to teach people more reliable ways of evaluating claims and information. Then, when an expert—or more likely, a politician—spreads bullshit, people will be better equipped to detect it.
Definitely.