Whom do you trust? I suppose the default response of a skeptic could be “no one,” at least until particular claims can be verified. It may go without saying, however, that the answer “no one” also applies to conspiracy theorists and others who buy into various forms of pseudoscience. They also probably think that they are ready to trust someone once their claims have been verified. We just have different ideas of what constitutes “verified.”
“SciBabe” Yvette d’Entremont
As we heard at CSICon 2018 from political science professor Joseph Uscinski, conspiracy thinking has become a major component of our public discourse, which is not news. But what might be news is his observation that conspiracy thinking cuts across all demographics: gender, age, class, and so on.