Opus 2025-041: Fake News Is a Symptom

The repetitive clickbait regarding Joe Rogan interviewing Wesley Huff finally got me to watch the discussion.  It was interesting and informative.  What caught Rogan’s attention had been a “debate” between Huff and someone called Billy Carson.  There was enough reaction expressed that I am in the process of listening to that.  It will take me several days.

One of the areas that I have a working knowledge of has to do with the validity of the Bible.  I have read enough and listened enough that my baloney meter knows when to go off.  Wesley Huff comes across as a careful scholar who knows his stuff.  Billy Carson sets my meter to playing a concerto.  He makes statements that would cause anyone who is awake and serious about learning to develop a rash.  

It occurred to me as I was listening that Billy Carson is not alone in the world of scholarship.  Much of what we read, be it history, science, theology, economics or any other topic, is nothing but the scholastic form of Fake News.  Call it Fake Scholarship.  If you have been exposed to it from kindergarten their might be some excuse for believing the things that you hear coming from your friendly local professor but it does not take much digging to at least question what you are hearing.

The list of Fake Scholarship is long.  One that has been around since I was a child is global warming or, as it used to be called, global cooling.  The nonsense about America having some special role in slavery means you have never got past the book of Genesis.  If you want to know how many genders there are all you have to do is look in a T-shirt catalog.  What the Second Amendment means only requires a second grade education to understand.  What kind of brain dead accepts that only white people can be racist?

You get the point.

Be alert for Fake Scholarship.

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