@sleepy62 "Sharing is caring".

-- Dave Eggers, The Circle

(It's ... dystopian, for those unfamiliar.)

@ploum

@SeanCasten To go philosophical: science vs. law is, as I came to a belated realisation some years ago, dialectic vs. rhetoric.

Science seeks to arrive at truths and better understanding.

Lawyers and politicians often are acting to persuade and convince.

Realising the difference made many of my previous frustrations with online discussion clear: I was bringing a dialectical knife to a rhetorical gunfight.

Of course, at the time a lawyer I knew online piped up to contradict all of this, until I pointed out just what it was they were doing

There are times you want someone powerfully persuasive running things. And there are times you want someone dead-set on finding truth.

RFK Jr. unfortunately seeks to persuade based on myths, falsehoods, and lies. As you note, wrong person for the job.

Oh, and title-expertise confusion is what that frequently-abused notion of "appeal to authority" is. Again, RFK Jr. is poster-child for that.

But philosophers vs. sophists? That's one long-lived battle.