Welcome to Keith's night. Don't tread on anyone.
And the libertarian Institute here is a excerpt from
knowledge, reality and value. A mostly Common Sense guide to
Philosophy by dr. Michael humor, a professor of
philosophy at the University of Colorado, credulity.
Humans are born credulous. We instinctively believe what
people tell us, even with no, cooperation.
We are especially credulous about statistics or other
information that, Ones like objective facts.
Unfortunately, we are not so scrupulous when it comes to
accurately and non misleadingly reporting facts.
There is an enormous amount of disinformation in the world
particularly about politics and other matters of public
interest. If the public is interested in
it, there is bullshit about it. I have noticed that this
bullshit tends to fall into three main categories.
First ideological propaganda, if you Learn about an issue from a
partisan source. For instance.
You're worried about gun control on a gun control.
Advocacy website or you hear the day's news from a conservative
radio show, you will get pretty much 100% propaganda.
Facts will be exaggerated cherry-picked deceptively
phrased or otherwise misleading. Normally, you will have no way
of guessing the specific way in which the information is
deceptive. Making the information
essentially worthless for drawing inferences.
Second sensationalism mainstream news sources, make money by
getting as many people as possible to watch their shows,
read their articles and so on to do that.
They try to make everything sound as scary, exciting
outrageous, or otherwise dramatic, as possible, third
laziness. Most people who write for public
consumption are lazy and lack expertise about the things they
write about. If a story has some technical
aspect example, science news. Those journalists probably won't
understand it and they may get basic facts backwards.
Also, they often just talked to one or a few sources and print
whatever those sources. Say, even if the sources have
obvious biases, finally, a quote by Michael.
Malice. The battle is won when the
average American regards a corporate journalist, exactly as
they regard. A tobacco executive.
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