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engeljohnbyesterday at 3:22 PM2 repliesview on HN

Therefore, you can dismiss whatwever claim is being made. That's the reason to ask for the source: so you can judge whether it's reliable.


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munificentyesterday at 9:48 PM

Great, I dismissed it.

Unfortunately, the several million other people who live in the same voting unit as me didn't and ended up electing an asshat anyway.

warkdarrioryesterday at 9:43 PM

> That's the reason to ask for the source: so you can judge whether it's reliable.

So the solution to checking whether an article is reliable is to check whether its sources are reliable? How far back do you go? Or do you disregard immediately any article that does not cite only sources you already trust?