Believing in experts

[Belsnickel]

(07-03-2023, 04:20 PM)Leon Wrote: or that they have seen the truth about you.

you and dill an ludicus and pally and gino just keep proving what i said about you all. you guys want to pretend your smarter than every one else. use a ton of words everytime which is always a red flag. and talk down to folks. but whos really smart in here.

I don't pretend I am smarter than everyone else. I just know I am more knowledgeable about some things than other people. One of those things just happens to be government.

(07-03-2023, 04:20 PM)Leon Wrote: look at folks like harley and sunsetbengals and luvnit and steelersfan. they tell it like it is and call stuff out when it needs to be called out. they dont just accept things cause left wing folks with tons of words say its so. they challengs things not just go along like sheep being told what to say. 

I find this hilarious given the amount of debunked propaganda Luvnit spouts.

(07-03-2023, 04:20 PM)Leon Wrote: just look. pally and ludicus trying to always defend tarteging little children, gross. gino is always getting proved wrong. dill always trying to make history into meeting his left wing views. and you always trying to act like an expert in everything which gets really old real fast.

Not an expert in everything, just when it comes to government stuff I am probably one of, if not the most knowledgeable one on here. I'm ignorant in a lot of things, but I will freely admit to it. When it comes to energy stuff, for instance, I will defer to folks like Stewy. I know enough to say that the role of POTUS in the fluctuations of the price of gasoline is much smaller than people believe it to be, but beyond that I don't know a ton about those issues. Folks like me who work on policy go to people like Stewy (or at least we should) to ask for their input on things.

One thing I will point out is that if you only think those you typically agree with are the ones challenging things and those you disagree with never do, you might not be as much of a free thinker as you believe yourself to be. Especially when a lot of what you and some of them say are parroted talking points. Just sayin'.

(07-03-2023, 04:20 PM)Leon Wrote: you guys just want to believe things and defend things cause its how you been programmed. you talk about how science has problems but then say you stlill been believe if a majority say it. you dont see the craziness in that do you. 

I haven't been "programmed." The scientific method is rooted in asking a question and then seeking to disprove an answer. When you test things you are trying to break it. Then, you put the information out there and get others to repeat it, hoping for the same results. When that replication occurs, this strengthens the evidence for the answer. My first post in this thread was all about evaluating the evidence, thinking critically about the results, and requiring multiple sources to show the same results before I would accept something. That is as far from blindly accepting something as you can get. However, instead of recognizing that, you saw it was coming from me, pulled out some points to attack, and used them out of context to try to say that I was just following along on things.

The irony in this is so thick I really don't know what to do with it.