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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com

  1. "'Trusting the experts is not a feature of either a science or democracy," Kennedy said."

It's literally a vital feature of both science and of representative democracy.

I've written a fair bit about trust in expertise as a vital mechanism in the collective epistemology of science.

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

RFK Jr. in interview with Scripps News: ‘Trusting the experts is not science’

HHS Secretary RFK Jr. sat down with Scripps News for a wide-ranging interview, discussing mRNA vaccine funding policy changes and a recent shooting at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social

This is my frustration with a lot of pop science and pro ‘critical thinking’ rhetoric. People need the ability to discern real expertise, they can’t gain the ability to critically evaluate everything they hear on the merits.

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    Testudo Aubrei @ritterteufeltod.bsky.social

    I don’t understand enough math to critically evaluate scientific claims as such. I remember studying the Maxwell equations and realizing that they were physics - that the real substance of the concepts was expressed in math, and I couldn’t understand it. It gave me humility.

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