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Originally Posted by iggy_oi
Should we just blindly believe everything we see and hear regardless of who it's coming from?
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No. These aren't the only options. Rather than re-type everything I'll just quote myself.
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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
I get that fake news is a thing now, but the knee-jerk reaction to attack a source instead of the content is unbelievably annoying. Happens a lot in the Trump thread, too. Yes, if a source has a well-known bias, that's worth taking into account and scrutinizing the content that's on offer, but it doesn't actually say anything about the content itself in terms of truth value or importance. All it is, at best, is an alarm bell that says "look at this closely and make sure it's accurate before you accept it".
Too many people are purely strategic in their review of information presented. "Is this bad for my side of the argument? Okay, can I attack the source? Yes? Awesome, don't have to worry about whether or not they were right."
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"The great promise of the Internet was that more information would automatically yield better decisions. The great disappointment is that more information actually yields more possibilities to confirm what you already believed anyway." - Brian Eno
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