It’s true that motivated cognition and such issues are at work; they always are! But this is no ding on demanding epistemic legibility.
Even if the author never was interested in transmitting truth (like the CDC in your example), now you know how to detect a message that’s hard to critique / spot check.
It’s true that motivated cognition and such issues are at work; they always are! But this is no ding on demanding epistemic legibility.
Even if the author never was interested in transmitting truth (like the CDC in your example), now you know how to detect a message that’s hard to critique / spot check.