Yglesias: Elite Misinformation is an Underrated Problem

This is a pretty good post, and I recommend it. The fossil fuel "subsidy" point is particularly poignant.

However...

If I were going to write a post on "elite" misinformation, I'd think I should include some of the more blatant contemporary examples...such as:

(a) Police are unjustifiably killing thousands of black Americans every year.

(b) Women can be male / men can be female.

(c) "Climate science" predicts near-future human extinction because of climate change.

Again, e.g. the fossil fuel example is good, and of an interesting type. But that's the kind of thing that someone like Yglesias can discuss critically without being "cancelled." But your good former-liberal-now-"progressive" blue-team types can't come out and say what every rational person knows: that exactly zero women have penises. Yet again: it's good to know about the fossil fuel thing. And absolutely agreed: the blue team bullshits about the value of child-care subsidies to everyone else. And the red team is kinda wacky about the ability of tax cuts to pay for themselves. Agreed. Agreed. Agreed.

   But when the elite consensus now at least formally seems to include views on the order of up is down and night is day...well...call me crazy...but I think those are too important to be left out of such a discussion.