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Comment author: TimS 05 April 2013 01:47:35PM *  1 point [-]

Can you name other questions that this heuristic got wrong for thousands of years?

In other words, are we arguing about the process of finding truth, or the final results? "Believe what the experts believe" is a terrible process for society to implement in trying to discover what is truth, but it works pretty well for individuals at particular moments in time.