"Which is why I've made it my mission, at great personal cost, to suppress better arguments!"Also, nothing but love for Carl Sagan. I want to live in the world he believed in. But! Sometimes the best cure for a fallacious argument is a picture of a pig with poop on its balls
That's not true, not even in science. Science has strong gatekeeping and moderation in the form of peer review. You can't just publish any old shite.
And we've seen what happens to online spaces when you get rid of gatekeeping and moderation. You get 8chan. You get the Christchurch shooting.
Wish I had heard that back when the "I fucking LOVE science" FB group was the gravity well of bazingas.
this can easily applies to internet pop history lovers too, i'll remember this one
