Fact or Fiction? (General)

by David Turell , Thursday, March 25, 2010, 03:52 (5169 days ago) @ dhw


> Who, then, are we supposed to believe? Plenty of clever people have found a solution: follow the experts you want to follow, and take their word as fact; dismiss the others as purveyors of fiction. I suppose this is part of what we call faith.-And Matt, because of his age, has always been exposed to peer review, which has exposed us to hidden agendas, and in a way thought control. Matt likes it because he was never exposed to the old system. Group belief is a sad result. One must be very skeptical of almost everything. I'm certain I love my wife, my dog, my daughter. The rest required careful thought.