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Re:Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts by arvinsim on Monday July 13, 2020 @03:34AM (#23818091)
> And that's why there is value in expert consensus. Becoming expert is hard and nobody can be expert in everything. So the expert consensus is a good first heuristic for a layman.

Corporate Lobbying has also eroded that trust.

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Re:Science is the belief in the ignorance of experts by js8 on Monday July 13, 2020 @03:45AM (#23818163)
I agree, but there is a simple recipe to counter that. Simply stop talking about the free speech being only an issue with respect to the government. People who work for corporations need to be able to publicly criticize the corporations they work for as well.
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