Clawmaster wrote:
Lets say you walk into work and tell people something you heard on the JRE that you thought was interesting. One person asks "Is it true?" And you say "I don't know. Do your own research. The show is about curiousity. It's up to you to do the background research."
That's fine but this argument basically comes down to me saying that Joe Rogan should be able to tell if the person on his show is saying things that are at least somewhat accurate and you are saying "No. It's my job to Google it after I listen".
Let's say you go to work and are presented with a set of lab values that could indicate one thing or the other, do you just blindly trust what you know, or do you seek out other sets of eyes with other levels of experience to help interpret said lab values?
You would of course potentially run into someone with a somewhat radical interpretation that you had not considered, you would of course vet that interpretation and thereby potentially increase your interpretive level, you may actually learn something completely different during your pursuit, but that is how critical thinking skills are developed and honed.
Maybe some are just intellectually curious, and others are afraid to venture outside of some prefabricated intellectual box they have built for themselves? I would suppose those types would find any open ranging conversation terrifying because they may hear something that challenges their prefabricated box.
It does seem that many willingly choose to limit themselves due to a fear of being exposed to new ideas or new concepts.[/quote]I'll simply point out once again that you and me are both treating the Joe Rogan Experience and the guests on it as unreliable which is fine with me. Even you have made it crystal clear you shouldn't actually believe anything you hear on the show without "doing your own research".
I actually like Joe Rogan from all the other things he has done previously but I guess it's too much to have an expectation that the information on his show doesn't require me to fact check it all because it could just be a bunch of made up garbage or it could be correct and there really isn't any way to know.
You seem quite impressed with yourself because you listen to the Joe Rogan Experience.