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Sasha Stone's avatar

This is great. Your voice should be the most influential and prominent right now, Matt. Instead you get chased around on Twitter by people who say you are no longer "pure" enough for the new Left. It's disgusting what has happened to journalism. The thing is, it DOES still exist. But the channels for it - social media - are corrupt beyond repair. If it doesn't happen on Twitter it doesn't happen. It has to go viral and all of that nonsense. We need, I think, more trustworthy aggregators. We need a Drudge Report for honest objective journalism people can check every day.

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Skeptic's avatar

Reading Matt's Twitter feed is both funny and sad. It's amazing how many different ways people find to say, "What happened to you, man?" And not one of them seems to consider, maybe the dude is just trying to tell the truth.

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DC Lovell's avatar

What they mean is how dare you not agree with our collective mind, that tells you all you need to know.

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norstadt's avatar

"Collective mind" is an interesting concept. Maybe future cognitive scientists will smile at our ignorance about the dynamics of collective opinions.

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DC Lovell's avatar

There is a good book called the Smart Swarm that shows various beneficial actions of groups of different animals. Humans not so much.

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norstadt's avatar

Thanks for the book recommendation. I see scientific communications as a huge success for human group behavior. What we have now feels like a speed bump, but in the long run, people sticking to reality ought to have a decisive advantage over those who are caught up in fantasies.

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