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Re:Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated by thereisnospork on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @01:57PM (#28855328)
How do you inform a voter on the implications of say, tax policy, and expect them to make a rational decision if they can't even comprehend that the earth is proven to not be flat? Ignorance and its tolerance hurts everyone in a democracy.
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Re:Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated by thrwawy12345 on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @02:43PM (#28855794)
What a curious argument against democracy.
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Re:Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated by betwixthewires on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @03:55PM (#28856838)
It's not that curious, it's pretty clearly self describing actually.

And what's wrong with arguments against democracy? We are in a thread explicitly discussing questioning anything and everything and talking about the virtues of being averse to dogma. What if democracy is not as good as it gets? What if there's an alternative that is not authoritarianism?

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Re:Why “Trusting the Science” Is Complicated by johnisgood on Wednesday October 13, 2021 @08:11PM (#28859091)
You may find http://anthonyflood.com/rothbarddemocracy.htm interesting.
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