Oddbean new post about login | logout There are things that are fit for human consumption. There are things that a government full of elitism, pig-ignorance, ambulance-chasing and corruption says are fit for human consumption. DYOR, as always, but the overlap between categories is pretty small.
I prefer to trust qualified scientists rather than uneducated, opinionated nobody's on the Internet. Although, all those years I spent at university probably makes me a little biased towards educated people.
Strangely, it had the opposite effect on me. I find defensive mediocrity tiresome, but I understand others call it home. You do you, bro. For everyone else, you can DYOR on sci-hub.se or annas-archive.org reading actual papers, and learn a lot more for a lot less.