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>>codech+(OP)
This is why people say "do your own research". Because trusting some other authority will end badly, just like this.

>>genera+Ca
> "do your own research"

How? I barely have enough time to do my day job. You think I have the time or expertise to research the origins of a virus?

Where does it end? Do I grow my own food? Make my own clothes? Build my own car after mining ore, smelting it and doing a million other things?

>>tricer+rf
The more important takeaway is don't shout down those who are skeptical if you haven't actually investigated the authorities' credibility yourself. Get comfortable with not knowing, with being agnostic on a lot of issues, because it's often the only reasonable position.

(The most important takeaway is to ignore Twitter - not "social media", but specifically Twitter).

>>lmm+Dm
So I give every quack the same attention, legitimacy, as say, an expert I trust? That's almost as bad advice as trust no one and do my own research for everything.

>>chrisc+Gn
No, you make your own judgements, but you don't publish them. Otherwise initially legitimate credibility gets amplified to unreasonable levels because everyone ends up circularly reasoning that the more credible people are more credible.