I am still looking for someone to give a rigorous explanation/explanation of difference between populism & democracy. Nothing yet. - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Since the Enlightenment, in the great tension between rationalism (how we would like things to be so they make sense to us) and empiricism (how things are), we have been blaming the world for not fitting the beds of “rational” models, have tried to change humans to fit technology, fudged our ethics to fit our needs for employment, asked economic life to fit the theories of economists, and asked human life to squeeze into some narrative.

(Journalistic) noise is to signal what a cancer cell is to a healthy one.

A false accusation of rape has the side effect of inducing skepticism, causing genuine accusations to be taken less seriously. You are also harming the true victims.