>>12859577You can't test every piece of information you receive by yourself, there's just too much of it.
What you can test by yourself, you should.
Beyond that, it's not a decline of rationality, it's a decline in trust towards the institutions controlling the narrative that's considered rational.
I'd argue a flat earther "building a rocket" to verify his theory then dropping it when his experiment falsifies said theory is more scientific than someone flat out accepting the fact that the earth is round without ever questioning why.
A personal example would be how i'm against covid vaccination, and i'll do everything in my power to avoid getting (one of) the vaccine(s) not because i believe vaccines cause autism or some other baseless theory but because i distrust every institution involved in the covid crisis, from the WHO to the pharmacorps producing the vaccine. Again, not that i belive covid vaccination is some secret ploy to sterilize the population or something, but the whole situation screams "lets just get this out the door and get back to normal, side effects be damned". Subjectively weighing my distrust towards said institutions against the risks on contracting a <1% mortality rate flu, i'll take the latter.
tl;dr: it's about trust, not education
Epstein didnt kill himself btw
