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> It’s completely unreliable because it sounds confident and plausible even when it’s wrong.

That applies to my boss, college professors, Wikipedia, or my neighbor after a couple of beers. It's not designed to give the correct medical steps to diagnosis a brain injury.

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The problem is most people do believe these confident facts spoken by a leader, they aren't evaluating them. An easy example is the fairly widespread belief that somehow the us pres election was stolen. People said it, but there mountains of evidence don't exist. But millions of people believe it.

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