The real task isn’t “teaching people to spot misinformation.” It’s rebuilding conditions where verification, deliberation and accountability are possible. Critical thinking only works when the world around it gives those skills a place to take root.

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Sen Bill Cassidy, a liver-disease MD, complains about this ruling, as I am doing.

Here's the difference: He, personally, could have prevented all the resulting casualties, by casting the swing vote against RFK Jr. That's a power the other 330+ million of us lacked.

Don't let him forget it.

@alderfish.bsky.social

…that social media is not the place to educate yourself about something so massive, consequential, complex and new. And that the time to dramatically increase your own expertise by wisely and critically turning to real experts and sources of unbiased knowledge is now.