RE: From Anti-Vaxers to Alfie's Army: Have we lost faith in medical science?
Great article. I love how you break down the good-faith and bad-faith. I often find that staunch confirmation bias, rooted in bad-faith is extremely difficult to combat and migrate to a common ground where an individual can internalize and accept good-faith.
I find that "social-trust" migrates or morphs as people's bias becomes more entrenched and their social circle involves more bad-faith than good-faith acceptance.
The Internet definitely does not help as it tends to hyper-accelerate the bias drift and in more cases than not, towards the bad-faith acceptance as it accentuates a false set of common values. The anti-vaxer movement preys on this vulnerability.
Really looking forward to having some time this weekend to read your paper. Interested in your thoughts on "social-trust" drift.
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Hey @jasonbu, yes the good faith/bad faith distinction is key in how we respond. Although its probably best that we assume that everyone is acting in good faith, the understanding that some are in bad faith makes the process feel a lot easier though.
My concern is what happens if this whole web 3.0 thing takes off, echo chamber is going to get a lot more echoey in my opinion.
Thank you, yes the paper is ok, it's the first one that I wrote and I had a co-first author which made the process a bit tough. Thanks for the resteem, really appreciate it! Also I can highly recommend writing for steemSTEM if you've got the time, the rewards are great and you've obviously got the chops for it.