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@JedKron1248 @Tadano @scalar @BowsacNoodle The “who do I believe” crisis sucks, and there are more people who are paid to lie to you than people who are paid to learn and tell the truth. To make matters worse, we don’t know how far back and to what extent the lying has occurred, namely: can I trust a medical study from the 1990s? 1950s? 1800s? Quacks have always existed, but they have historically been more interested in making a quick buck than wanting people to die, as today’s crop of top-level quacks seem to be.

Fortunately, they overplay their hand frequently, and they panic the moment someone starts to stumble on the right answer. The fact that ivermectin was shut down so hard, and yet never disproven (nor even attempted to be) by the establishment, is an indicator that “this is worth investigating”–not necessarily that it is good, but simply a good lead.

You also need to keep in mind that the fewer followers someone has, the less likely they know what they are talking about, whereas the more followers someone has, the more likely they are compromised. There are outliers, of course, but for me it’s a general rule. Also remember that the landscape is constantly shifting; someone you trusted could be bought out, a newcomer worth listening to could arrive on the scene, said newcomer could be a shill or a truly good person (until being bought out/silenced later), etc.

A lot of it comes from spiritual (or, for the humanists, “system 1”) discernment–that gut feeling you get when you know something isn’t quite right, even though on the surface it all seems fine.

Some of it comes from experience and learning from being lied to in the past. We’ve all been hoodwinked at one time or another.

The biggest thing, in my opinion, is to pray to God for wisdom and guidance on the right path. No one can escape the Father of Lies alone.