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Re:9/11 Material Released in Response to Executive Order 14040 by AnimalMuppet on Sunday September 12, 2021 @09:39PM (#28506959)
I'd love that, too. The trick is figuring out whether the "trusted" person is really unbiased, or whether they have a bias in either direction. Making it harder, whichever side that the expert disagrees with will claim bias, whether or not there was any...
Re:9/11 Material Released in Response to Executive Order 14040 by nyokodo on Sunday September 12, 2021 @10:09PM (#28507137)
> The trick is figuring out whether the "trusted" person is really unbiased

It’s impossible to avoid bias, however whether the bias is bad or not depends on the bias and the situation. My go tos are people whose biases I think are either actively helpful (e.g. experts in a field who I’ve previously vetted), irrelevant to the topic (e.g. an NYT journalist talking about cheesecake in pre-war Cambodia), or who have a history of self-deprecating humility to the naked truth regardless of where it leads them but also not incredulous but humble to their intellectual limitations (very rare but occasionally stumbled upon).