ABSTRACT
In particular, answering big questions requires that the people rely on the tools, methods, and training of experts. The social aspect becomes even more pressing in the current age of fake news. In fact, much of the disagreement over which news is fake comes down to the social environments in which the people find ourselves. Trusting others goes badly when the people surround ourselves with the wrong crowd. The limit case of problems that stem from trusting others is the conspiracy theory. In particular, it goes wrong when the people start with false beliefs about the world and use inside-out reasoning to identify trustworthy people in our environment or when the people find ourselves in monochromatic or insulated environments that skew our sense of who to trust. Academic publishing houses and journals have similar incentives to publish high-quality work. It's one thing to say that real experts are the ones with truth-related incentives who make falsifiable yet accurate judgments.
