And when you have a billion people doing this, that’s a lot of insanity. Like, world-spanning plague-level insanity.

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    Agreed. It’s an old problem. Call it “bad epistemology” (BE).

    The method of Science was arguably contrived to combat BE (or at least to offer an advantageous alternative).

    Which gives us a nice spectrum. On one end strong reference to observation, delivering high-quality knowledge (IE science etc). On the other end a recursive BE machine.

    Social media has turned the BE into a kaiju. A reverse scientific enlightenment.