re: #272 Taqiyyotomist

It’s a strange situation: not only do people disagree, but many (most?) people simply ignore everyone else’s sources.

Charles does a good job of tacking between sources to establish a clear “rational” transmission from all the ambient irrationality, but in the vast scheme of things, he’s only got one website.

I get the impression that many people are so focused on getting their information from specific — and often biased — sources, that there’s no common space to turn to where contradictory ‘facts’ can get hashed out, and questions decided. Academic journals? Your mileage with those varies — a lot. Newspapers? The answer is mostly “no.” Magazines like The Nation or National Review No, those things are built to spin. Sure, factual information can come from any quarter, and any bias.

But man, it takes an enormous amount of work to separate wheat from chaff.