From: jshem@yaxenu.org   
      
   D  writes:   
      
   > On Sat, 27 Jan 2024, Internetado wrote:   
      
   [...]   
      
   > With the growing specialization and politization of science, the idea   
   > that the common man should be able to detect anything but the simplest   
   > statistical shenanigans is completely absurd.   
      
   I didn't get this.  It's absurd the idea that the common man should   
   detect simple statistical nonsense.  Why is that absurd?  It also   
   puzzled me the introduction---``with the growing...''.  I'm   
   grammatically and semantically puzzled.  Can you elaborate?  I feel   
   you're implying a cause-effect relationship here.  It's not clear.   
      
   > The only way is the way of reputation where journalists take on that   
   > role, and by _not_ engaging in polarization and click-bait build their   
   > reputation as trust worthy sources of scientific editors and writers.   
      
   That'd be great, but I wouldn't count on it.  I believe we're on our   
   own.   
      
   > But media today as completely abandoned that role,   
      
   Today it is there for anyone to see, but they abandoned that decades   
   ago.  Powerful groups destroyed the press everywhere.  It makes perfect   
   sense for powerful groups.  They have the means and they don't like a   
   free press, so they destroyed the free press there was.  It makes   
   perfect sense.  We have a new problem now.  How to build a free press in   
   such context.  That's a new problem.   
      
   > and politicians,   
      
   The free politician went away along with the free press.  Politicians   
   are now employees of the powerful groups---on average, of course.   
      
   > in order to get easily controlled populations, have worsened the   
   > quality of schools.   
      
   That I'm not sure.  It's not clear to me what the cause of the decay in   
   education.   
      
   > Add to that wokeism and cultural relativism which does not value   
   > science and objective fact, and you have a recipe for our current   
   > disaster   
      
   We're surely in a mess.   
      
   > and why authoritarianism is on the rise.   
      
   It's not clear to me that cultural relativism is a certain cause of   
   authoritarianism.  I tend to look at both as effects of something else,   
   which is not clear what.   
      
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