Josh's comic reads:
I just posted this
https://twitter.com/Cartoonsbyjosh/status/1853372731267453020
Might play a role in Monday cheer.
Ben’s article is here
all the best
Josh
Ben's article requires payment, but here is his Twitter post about his article.
https://twitter.com/clim8resistance/status/1853039837323972934
I also commented on Ben's original tweet.
Charles Rotter 📟
@crotter8
Excellent work. Another way to put it is that we have serious epistemological problems with the institutions and scientific knowledge we capture ideologically.In some cases, such as the effectiveness of mRNA therapies, agencies like the CDC and NIH have fallen into blatant lies, but we still expect these agencies to collect data on non-political issues, such as genetic mutations that cause predilection for specific cancers.
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is blatantly putting its thumb on the scale in its climate crisis propaganda presentation, but it seems we can still trust the National Hurricane Center's short-term forecasts.
End users are now effectively forced to differentiate between truth and fiction from the same source.
A simple path is to completely trust or distrust the institution (or academia or the corporate media) and accept or reject everything about those institutions.
But this doesn't work. Instead, critical thinking must be employed to distinguish useful fact from propaganda fiction.
For many reasons, including the collapse of Western education, most people are not up to the task, so they outsource critical thinking to middlemen, and a subordinate authority becomes the new authority.
Without repairing the education system, a task that will take generations, and rebuilding institutions to make them trustworthy from the ground up, social trust and cohesion will be difficult to regain quickly.
BTW, @crotter8 and @wattsupwiththat.com could use more follows.
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