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"My hope is that not just scientists, but people with opinions and political stakes in general, can seriously consider the fact that people who don’t share their political viewpoints have something valuable to say—and even if they don’t have something valuable to say about a particular political topic, that their different experience and perspective has likely given them access to other kinds of information that will be valuable and new to you."
http://nautil.us/issue/70/variables/wikipedia-and-the-wisdom-of-polarized-crowds
@theodraxis On the one hand i totally agree. Everyone has something they could share that would have value in almost any discussion, most of all political.
On the other hand most people are so driven by emotion on the internet they can not articular themselves well enough in political discussions to convey anything of value in the first place.
Scientists are guilty of this too but I find less often, they tend to resort to logic more often and engage in reasonable debate.