Kellisness
Registered Senior Member
The average person currently believes that...
* Bin Laden did 911
* Man made global warming is a fact
* There isn't a global conspiracy going back thousands of years
* etc
However, the average person isn't in a position to really know if those things are true. They watch the news and read the paper and they believe that what they're told is true.
People who read what you might call alternative news don't necessarily believe the above, and they usually question the mainstream, rather than believe it without at least checking out alternative explanations and making comparisons.
The mainstream "scientific" types talk about questioning things rather than believing everything they're told, yet they criticise those whose alternative views are based on doing just that, whilst not criticisng whatsoever those who believe the mainstream unquestioningly. It seems that for those people, it's not as important to question as it is to believe the mainstream, which is hypocritical.
* Bin Laden did 911
* Man made global warming is a fact
* There isn't a global conspiracy going back thousands of years
* etc
However, the average person isn't in a position to really know if those things are true. They watch the news and read the paper and they believe that what they're told is true.
People who read what you might call alternative news don't necessarily believe the above, and they usually question the mainstream, rather than believe it without at least checking out alternative explanations and making comparisons.
The mainstream "scientific" types talk about questioning things rather than believing everything they're told, yet they criticise those whose alternative views are based on doing just that, whilst not criticisng whatsoever those who believe the mainstream unquestioningly. It seems that for those people, it's not as important to question as it is to believe the mainstream, which is hypocritical.