alt Hacker NewsThat’s the beautiful thing about science: You do not have to (and should not) trust any individual. And even if you don’t trust “the consensus” of “the scientific community”, you can empirically verify yourself.
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zahlman • today at 6:33 PM
Can ordinary civilians feasibly measure, for example, global trends in mean temperature without relying on the data of others?
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dekhn • today at 6:54 PM
Are you going to build a competitor to CERN?
There are many things that cannot be feasibly verified empirically without access to rare resources.
Once you move from abstract to practical - like say having legislators or regulators make rules based on The Science, or relying personally on more facts than you have time to independently verify - yes you do need to have trustworthy people.