One of the primary skills of this era is being able to tell when experts are lying to you, or are just wrong, without tipping over into bizarre conspiracy thinking like “vaccines don’t work” or “Bill Gates is microchipping us all.”

This is really hard to do, of course, and it’s really a superpower when you can do this. Most people realize the available experts are inferior, but then they flop right on over into conspiracy thinking because they don’t have good enough minds to evaluate actual evidence and cannot understand complex systems.

I am very thankful that I have the skills necessary to dismiss experts as needed, evaluate evidence apart from their lies and obfuscations, and that I can comprehend complex systems pretty easily.