Epistemic Unreliability

JTB of Rude Truth has a great post here. She describes how earlier in her life she hesitated to vote because she found it so difficult to determine the reliability of all the information that was needed in order synthesize a viewpoint and then make an informed and valid decision.

Epistemic unreliability is the phrase she used. I like that. It is admirable in these days to admit humility in the midst of the sea of conflicting and complicated information that swirls about us. Some can't live without certainty and feel they must be right and have the answers. So, they are vulnerable to the people who have the key, who give them the interpretive tools with which to filter everything. Once the commitment is made and an identity acquired and embraced, no conflicting information can convince them differently. We need better tools to help us. In that regard, JTB found this.