Cartoons by Josh writes:

I posted this just now 

https://twitter.com/Cartoonsbyjosh/status/1853372731267453020

might work as a Monday Mirthness.

Ben’s article here

https://dailysceptic.org/2024/11/02/scepticisms-post-covid-problem/

All the best

Josh 

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Ben’s article is behind a paywall but here is his Twitter thread about his article.

https://twitter.com/clim8resistance/status/1853039837323972934

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I also weighed in on Ben’s original tweet.

Charles Rotter 📟
@crotter8
Excellent piece. Another way to put this is that we have a serious epistemological problem with ideologically captured institutions and scientific knowledge.

In some cases, such as mRNA therapy effectiveness, institutions such as the CDC and NIH are caught in blatant lies, but we still look to these same institutions to collect data on non-political issues, such as a genetic mutation that causes a predilection towards specific cancers.

NOAA blatantly puts its thumb on the scale in presentations of Climate Crisis propaganda, but it seems we can still trust the National Hurricane Center’s short-term forecasts.

End users are now literally forced to distinguish between truth and fiction emanating from the same source.

A simple path is to simply trust or distrust the institution, (or academia, or corporate media), completely, embracing everything or rejecting everything from those institutions.

But that doesn’t work. Instead critical thinking must be employed to separate useful truth from propaganda fiction.

For many reasons, including the collapse of education in the West, most people aren’t up to the task so they outsource their critical thinking to intermediates, a sub authority becoming the new authority.

Without fixing the educational system, a multigenerational task, and rebuilding institutions to become trustworthy from scratch, it’s hard to see societal trust and cohesiveness returning anytime soon.

BTW, @crotter8 as well as @wattsupwiththat.com can use more follows.