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I think there's an implication of central curation that's done by the education system. That would be the difference from the internet. The question of who is qualified to run the system, is not easy answer. Consider academia and publishing to journals. On paper that's the embodiment of the quote. It's been corrupted by money, and perturbed by mandatory publishing. In order to maintain grants, publish X times a year, etc there's plenty of p hacking, unreproducible papers, and straight up fraudulent papers in circulation.

As fas our belief in the quote, it's clear there exists a subset of the population that doesn't believe this quote to be correct. We're seeing a renaissance of anti-intellectualism, where people reject basic science; brag about not reading books; segregate themselves into their own echo chambers; instead of facts informing beliefs, beliefs inform "facts."

A basic example is that diseases we've all but eradicated are seeing a resurgence thanks to trading vaccination for pox/covid/measles/etc parties.