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This is a "no true scotsman" fallacy in which one can shift goalposts endlessly with any misinformation with "so and so wasn't really highly educated".

Give me concrete, well-researched, well-evidenced claims about the easy identification of misinformation, because it's so easy.

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If there are any take-aways from the previous year, they might include that "well-researched, well-evidenced claims" may later turn out to be false.

The process of understanding is a continuum that we strive towards.

There is an entire replication crisis in scientific literature debunking "well-researched, well-evidenced claims".

The only way out is to think.

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