News media and the public are so stupid

[flyingron]

Appeal to authority fallacy. Wearing a square suit and tie doesn't make you credible/informed either.

Who the fudge said anything about suits. But reputable people have names and credentials, not someone who makes an anonymous reddit account.

 

[EdFred]

Who the fudge said anything about suits. But reputable people have names and credentials, not someone who makes an anonymous reddit account.

...or an anonymous POA account.

 

[Bob Noel]

Just in case we forget how gullible the uninformed can be:

https://www.dhmo.org/facts.html

(Yes this is satire...or is it?)

I was thinking about dhmo... just was too lazy to post about it... you beat me to it...

 

[flyingron]

...or an anonymous POA account.

My real identity is not a secret. Tons of people here have taken pleasure in "outing" me even though I never attempted to keep it secret. My real name got trashed when the board went to XenForo here an the user vs. Display Names got all bolluxed up.

 

[Palmpilot]

Appeal to authority fallacy. Wearing a square suit and tie doesn't make you credible/informed either.

Sure, but the odds are much better if there is reason to believe that the person knows what they are talking about. I would agree though, that a person's screen name doesn't really tell you one way or the other. Fact-checking is necessary.

 

[Palmpilot]

...or an anonymous POA account.

After a while, we begin to learn which posters are knowledgeable about which subjects.

 

[EdFred]

My real identity is not a secret. Tons of people here have taken pleasure in "outing" me even though I never attempted to keep it secret. My real name got trashed when the board went to XenForo here an the user vs. Display Names got all bolluxed up.

I wasn't referring to you, but others that proclaim to be experts, but provide no qualifications to corroborate their inside knowledge.