Fleur_@aussie.zone to Showerthoughts@lemmy.world · 13 hours 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-square16fedilinkarrow-up1106arrow-down12
arrow-up1104arrow-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 · 13 hours agomessage-square16fedilink
minus-squareagamemnonymous@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up1·8 hours 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-up1·4 hours agoOf course, consensus doesn’t automatically mean truth if the consensers aren’t all being self interrogative and critically thinking.
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.