Fake experts are everywhere on the internet. How do you spot a reliable expert and differentiate them from unreliable fakes?

Here are 12 signs to look for, each of which can provide evidence of a proclaimed 'experts' reliability:

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Even after the NYT, WPost, and other media fixed their errors, if you typed 'Hunter Biden Email Controversy' into Wikipedia, it sent you to... 'conspiracy theory!'

How did Wiki get it so wrong?

Because because wikipedia has been swamped with leftist, even socialist, editors!

If your great-grandparents had half as many kids, there's a 50% chance you would not exist. But they'd have been able to spend more time & money on each of their kids. Would that have been a better choice?

If you use Wikipedia, you've seen pop-ups like this. If you're like me, you may have donated as a result.

Wikipedia is an amazing website, and the appeals seem heartfelt. But I've now learnt the money isn't going where I thought...

We should send rockets not at each other, but rather to the stars

'Well-grounded values, which is to say values that actually serve & accelerate life rather than deplete it, come from only one source: hard engagement with reality, where you can form an experience-building feedback loop of trial, error, & vitality. Call it evolution, science,

The University of Alberta (University of Alberta) is hiring 4 tenured professors:

- 2 Professors of Engineering
- 2 Professors of Medicine

All qualified persons must self-identify as a member of the following group: women and gender minorities.

This is incredibly messed up

So much for 'The first generation that will be poorer than their parents'.

economist.com/finance-and-ec…

Kidney donors are the only people in the process who receive no compensation vox.com/future-perfect… via Vox

Look past the temptation to characterize Christopher F. Rufo ⚔️’s whimsical commentary exposing Katherine Maher’s (@krmaher) own tweets as performance art or offense archeology.

That is a distraction.

What he has done is unearth something far more sinister.

Ms Maher’s politics and

Example from Maxim Lott's Election Betting Odds:

Senior NPR editor Uri Berliner has been suspended from the public radio network he's served for 25 years after sharing concerns about bias in The Free Press: thefp.pub/4aJXNk4

Trump's odds to win the November election are now down 12 points since mid-February when they peaked at just over 55%. Down to 43.8% as of today. President Biden leads at 45.3%. Maxim Lott

A little bit more granular - linear distribution of house prices by county. There's a decent case to be made that the US housing crisis is really a housing crisis of DC, Boston, NYC, Colorado, Florida, and the west coast.

Of course, that's also the areas with high demand...

Prior to 2021, FL never had more registered Republicans than Democrats. Now, a million voter R registration advantage is within reach.

Hillsborough (Tampa) is about to flip from D to R, which will mean every county in the Tampa Bay market has a R advantage in this previously

Ron Swanson's Lesson On Taxes: 🚨

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Libertad!

1.5 years ago, government ordered political betting site PI to shut down, for no good reason.

PredictIt sued to stay open. Today, (government efficiency) it's STILL not even clear what court will hear the case.

Sadly, betting options on PredictIt are now limited.

Harvard is the latest college to reinstate the SAT requirement.

Good.

thecrimson.com/article/2024/4…

The school referenced a study that found SAT scores are a stronger predictor of college success than grades.

They could have just watched this: