[shalmanese]

> The most generous interpretation is that HN has a severe Dunning-Kruger problem. The more likely explanation is that HN is host to a lot of people who are completely incapable of empathy and are unable to protect themselves from disinformation in areas outside of their own expertise.

It's one of the weird quirks of living in our modern hyper partisan environment that how much you believe political correctness is a problem on college campuses is correlated with what you think the IFR of an infectious disease is.

Beliefs come as a package now, independent of the evidence of each individual portion of the package.

[shuntress]

The two package options are "Alternative Facts" and "Reality"