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This is a common rebuttal to "respect the consensus: What about the wise contrarian that got it right?But only in hindsight does "ignoring CDC" = "listening to Zeynep Tufekci".In reality,

"I did my own research"A ThreadIn one my classes, a student said they liked to do their own research on scientific questions like masking, instead of just accepting consensus. So

the antidote to QAnon isn't (just) better informationremember, they think they are GETTING BETTER INFORMATIONthe antidote is training people to recognize garbage narrative tropes—hero/villain, apocalypse—and to be reflexively skepti

could there be a more racist assertion than the idea that *rationality* and *logic* are...”white”?genuinely shocked to find this is commonplace in anti-racist lit and discourse in addition to being

so I recently learned that during hyperinflation, Zimbabwe had a 100 trillion dollar banknotewhich sent me down the rabbit hole of hyperinflation, and let me tell you, if there is