For most topics of national or global interest, you can’t rely on biased experts to sort things out for you, and those are the only experts you are likely to encounter. We generally have to rely on our own cleverness to discern truth from fake news. But how does one do that? If you are like most people, you look for a one-variable shortcut. And sometimes that works. For example, years ago, when Newsweek was a physical magazine, they invited me to create a Dilbert-themed cover. The catch was that they were trying to decide between using my art versus another option in which they would use an
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