Disinformation

Objective information is often found by looking deep into a subject using science and a microscope. The issue with this is the data points which are collected and published behind paywalls and then interpreted by bias institutions and regurgitated as news. With the advent its a common fallacy but an argument flat earthers always come up with is have you ever seen the world as a sphere? There are under 1,000 people on earth who have done so however the majority of the earth populace believe the earth to be a sphere, so how did they come to this conclusion?

The human mind has evolved heuristics which allow weighting of information based upon its perceived authority. For instance, story of the BOY who cried wolf, might have ended differently if the protagonist was a middle aged doctor in a lab coat. We have negative weighting to younger people when exchanging information, it seems the older a person is the more wisdom and weight. This may have made sense during the pre-internet era as information was less dynamic, however today longevity is more of a hinderance than a benefit as it have been found that neuroplasticity which is of the utmost importance during crisis wanes with age.

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