besalel
” partly because of its evolutionary ability to sift out the garbage”
The problem is for whatever reason it hasn’t been working. Chazal say people don’t lie if they will get caught. Yet we see this is no longer true. A fellow publicly said by morning of August 13 , Trump would be reinstated. Yet here we are, why put an exact date, he knew nobody would care, will he lose followers ? not many.
A doctor has said that in 2 years 75% of those vaccinated will be dead. Will he lose credibility in 2023? I doubt it. He publicly and repeatedly lies about NEJM studies, for example he claims a NEJM study shows a increase in miscarriages amount those vaccinated, it didn’t say that but it doesn’t matter. People still quote him as an authoritative source.
I don’t know how to reverse this trend, but unconstitutionally forcing private companies to provide platform to lies is unlikely to help.
and given my experience discussing vaccinations in the past, I am very skeptical that if only more public discourse would take place minds would change.