“People these days are either completely apathetic or they’re so full of rage that they can’t think!”
You say this like it’s a bad thing. If you make people think, that’s uncomfortable. When you ask questions, you make them reconsider their hard-won certainties. Which in academia or politics is a good thing.
In life, it’s not.
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I am NOT a medical expert. I’m not a doctor, an immunologist; I’m not even a licensed ambulance attendant any more. So when I tell you things about a viral outbreak, you should take them with a grain of salt. (So to speak. I’m also not a pharmacist.)
But when I talk about panic, you should listen to me. When I tell you about history, you should listen. And when anyone else who is not an immunologist (more…)
All news media is biased, including me. And that’s the way it ought to be. It’s the manner and degree of bias in the modern mass media that’s so very unfortunate.
According to recent polling by Gallup (itself possibly subject to statistical bias), only about a third of Americans trust the news to tell them the truth. It’s that lack of confidence, (more…)
The Not Fake News 