Trust and criticism in science, Part I: Critical rationalism instead of organized skepticism
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17 min readAug 8, 2020
Trust seems to play an ineliminable role in a considerable portion of our ordinary activities of knowledge acquisition. I believe that 382 million people live in the U.S. not because I have conducted a census myself but on the basis of an internet query. Often such trust is rational, because it is adequately justified even though the…