Tyson’s Reviews > The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters > Status Update

"The consumers of news have some important obligations here as well. I have for recommendations for you, the readers, when approaching the news: be humbler, be ecumenical, be less cynical, and be a lot more discriminating."

"People do not do 'research' so much as they 'search for pretty pages online to provide answers they like with the least amount of effort and in the shortest time.' The resulting flood of information, always of varying quality and sometimes of uncertain sanity, creates a veneer of knowledge that actually leaves people worse off than if they knew nothing at all."

"Emotion is an unassailable defense against expertise, a moat of anger and resentment in which reason and knowledge quickly drown."

"To reject the advice of experts is to assert autonomy, a way for Americans to insulate there increasingly fragile egos from ever being told they're wrong about anything. It is a new Declaration of Independence: no longer do we hold *these* truths to be self-evident, we hold *all* truths to be self-evident, even the ones that aren't true."