The danger with trusting authorities is that there is a significant risk of corruption, manipulation, disinformation and bolstering of self-serving agendas. For example politicians themselves generally don't have enough expertise and have to trust other authorities. Politicians can in this way easily become hostages to special interests.
Albert Einstein said something like: If you can't explain something to a six-year-old child you haven't understood it yourself. That's a good approach for how to make people have their own understanding instead of needing to trust authorities who tell them that Santa Claus is real.
Albert Einstein said something like: If you can't explain something to a six-year-old child you haven't understood it yourself. That's a good approach for how to make people have their own understanding instead of needing to trust authorities who tell them that Santa Claus is real.
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