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Re:If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed – The Stat... by EamonnMR on Thursday April 06, 2023 @02:50PM (#35472699)
I do wonder if we're rapidly entering a world where finding sources, doing research, etc is going to only be interesting to weird subcultures and everyone else will be satisfied with whatever the first Google result says, or a confident bot's fabrication.
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Re:If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed – The Stat... by TremendousJudge on Thursday April 06, 2023 @03:21PM (#35473117)
It was always this way. Replace Google with your neighbor who owns an encyclopedia, or the local priest. Caring about research, truth, and sources has always been something that only a minority cares about.
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Re:If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed – The Stat... by lolinder on Thursday April 06, 2023 @07:51PM (#35476177)
> the local priest

Or any other authority figure. My favorite exchange that I personally witnessed during early COVID was this one:

A, conspiratorially: You should hear what the dentist has to say about the COVID vaccine.

B: Why, does it affect my teeth?

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Re:If we lose the Internet Archive, we're screwed – The Stat... by aerostable_slug on Friday April 07, 2023 @03:15AM (#35479012)
It gets better/worse: much of dentistry is itself not evidence-based [0].

[0] an informative article and the American College of Dentists response:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/05/the-tro...

https://www.acd.org/position-papers/the-college-responds-to-...

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