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Unfortunately we aren’t so great at evaluating what an extraordinary claim is.

This is sort of why journalism is an actual profession. Editors do this, or at least are supposed to.

Listening to everything everyone says can have its upsides, but filtering out noise is not one of them.

Thats ... why on earth would I think any of the people involved in journalism are better at this than I am? That's not remotely their job description.

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