Comment on Carl Sagan's 9 timeless lessons for detecting baloney

linule@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

• dhork@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe, in the Before Times when people could agree on facts. But what about when one side has their own, hand-crafted “alternative facts”, along with a media universe that amplifies them? Then this all falls apart, because they insist their made-up facts are true.

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  • linule@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A big part of the problem is to generalize the worst parts of the respective communities. Yes, there’s people that indeed don’t care about facts, and you’d waste your time with them. But there’s a larger amount of people who do.

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• Dionysus@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  The Demon Haunted World actually predicts our current situation.

  Worth the read.

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• SeeMarkFly@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  And religion.

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