I'm sorry do I have this wrong? You read one story in source X from author A which you determine to be incorrect based on your own personal knowledge. Now we should assume everything published from source X is wrong because author A was incorrect? Is that what this is trying to say?
Journalists get things wrong. Doesn't mean I am going to completely ignore the nytimes from then on.
Or am I just a sucker now, according to Michael Chriton.
You know deeply about subjects X, Y and Z. There's an information source where every time you read about X, Y or Z, the article is wrong. You know that because you know X, Y and Z.
There are also subjects A, B and C. You know next to nothing about them. When you read something about them on that same source, you can't know if it is correct. So why would you even expect it not to be wrong too?
Journalists get things wrong. Doesn't mean I am going to completely ignore the nytimes from then on.
Or am I just a sucker now, according to Michael Chriton.