• Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    Nobody operates on facts alone. Unless you were there when it happened, you have to trust a source to some degree.

    Quite a lot of people just say fuck it, if its all varying degrees of shit, I’m not going to listen to any of it.

    Thats how word of mouth type stuff ends up on fox news, because even they know a lot of right wing Americans wont trust professional news stories over their neighbors anecdotes.

    We might think we use better sources, and check into things more vigorously, but our conclusions still require faith as much as any republicans beliefs.

    We still haven’t even figured out how to refute religion conclusively, for example. Juries still out on whether religion is fantasy or actual reality, whether we think thats ridiculous or not.