Fleur_@aussie.zone to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days agoYou always have to analyse a person's internet post about themselves or their life the same way you read a book written with an unreliable narratormessage-squaremessage-square30fedilinkarrow-up1147arrow-down13
arrow-up1144arrow-down1message-squareYou always have to analyse a person's internet post about themselves or their life the same way you read a book written with an unreliable narratorFleur_@aussie.zone to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 2 days agomessage-square30fedilink
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 days agoThat’s the entire point of citation, repeatable experiment, and peer review. The only way we can ever touch at reliability is cross-referential consensus.
minus-squareTheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 day agoOf course, consensus doesn’t automatically mean truth if the consensers aren’t all being self interrogative and critically thinking.
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·1 day agoCertainly, but it’s the only real starting place
That’s the entire point of citation, repeatable experiment, and peer review. The only way we can ever touch at reliability is cross-referential consensus.
Of course, consensus doesn’t automatically mean truth if the consensers aren’t all being self interrogative and critically thinking.
Certainly, but it’s the only real starting place