alt Hacker News> The problem is that you can't just verify everything yourself.
So the problem is reduced to "I believe what I want! This person said it and so I think it's true!"
Sounds like politics in a nutshell.
> The problem is that you can't just verify everything yourself.
So the problem is reduced to "I believe what I want! This person said it and so I think it's true!"
Sounds like politics in a nutshell.
No, it's not. It's reduced to "I trust people from a respectable scientific journal with 150 years of history".
> Sounds like politics in a nutshell.
Again, no. It sounds like the division of labor. The thing that made modern human societies possible.