{"id":14991,"date":"2024-01-16T04:22:49","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T04:22:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/social.coldstreams.com\/?p=14991"},"modified":"2024-11-18T01:41:29","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T01:41:29","slug":"media-rely-on-appeal-to-authority-to-vet-information","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/2024\/01\/16\/media-rely-on-appeal-to-authority-to-vet-information\/","title":{"rendered":"Media: Rely on Appeal to Authority to vet information"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Wow: <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20210219032324\/https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/02\/18\/opinion\/fake-news-media-attention.html\">Opinion | Don\u2019t Go Down the Rabbit Hole &#8211; The New York Times (archive.org)<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>Critical thinking, as we\u2019re taught to do, isn\u2019t helping in the fight against misinformation.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Instead, they say we should &#8220;check the source&#8221; in a form of &#8220;appeal to authority&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The problem with the blind Appeal to Authority is that authorities are wrong, surprisingly often. <em><strong>The truth of a statement does not depend on &#8220;who says it&#8221;, but on the underlying facts and logic.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Teaching students to focus on an appeal to authority is training students not to think for themselves but to &#8220;trust the experts&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the same week, probably half a dozen allegedly independent media outlets all run stories saying &#8220;trust the experts, do not think for yourself&#8221;. Wild.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appeal-to-authority","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coldstreams.com\/social\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}