Timeline for Is it fallacious to argue that something is correct, of good quality, or acceptable because a community of experts has established it as such?
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| Sep 28, 2021 at 13:51 | history | edited | Peter - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 27, 2021 at 18:42 | comment | added | Peter - Reinstate Monica | @NeilMeyer While that is a sentiment most of us have probably felt at some point, it was not the question -- quite to the contrary ;-). | |
| Sep 27, 2021 at 18:01 | comment | added | Neil Meyer | In the age of social media the reliability of experts could not be more irrelevant because people trust the opinion of idiots most. It truly is a case of the idiot leading the blind. | |
| Sep 27, 2021 at 11:25 | comment | added | leftaroundabout | “if you ask a number of physicists what quantum theory really means you may receive very different answers” – yes, but they probably will agree that there isn't any decidably right or wrong answer to what it “really means”, and that the more important question of what it predicts for a concrete experiment can be answered unanimously. To get real disagreement today you should rather ask about something like string theory. | |
| Sep 27, 2021 at 9:51 | history | edited | Peter - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 27, 2021 at 7:56 | history | edited | Peter - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Sep 26, 2021 at 20:44 | history | answered | Peter - Reinstate Monica | CC BY-SA 4.0 |