Within an area of knowledge is it more important to have credibility or power?

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Natural Sciences

MMR Vaccine & Autism – why did so many people believe? Why do people still believe?

https://www.encyclopedie-environnement.org/en/zoom/a-scientific-fraud-with-tragic-consequences-the-mmr-vaccine-and-autism/

History

Early Jewish text – they held a news conference before being peer-reviewed. Why?

https://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologist-claims-to-find-oldest-hebrew-text-in-israel-including-the-name-of-god/

Japanese Textbooks

https://www.jstor.org/stable/1393426

https://www.jstor.org/stable/24580666

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_history_textbook_controversies

Human Sciences

ManyLabs 2 – peer review creates credibility. What power do the findings have?

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2515245918810225

The Arts

Rotten Tomatoes – these people have credibility and power. So why do we disagree with them? Also, should ranking aggregation sites have this much power? Look at works of art that have been “review bombed.”

https://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/star-wars-last-jedi-one-of-the-biggest-rotten-tomatoes-audience-vs-critics-score-splits-ever/#:~:text=Star%20Wars%3A%20The%20Last%20Jedi,critics%20vs%2056%25%20audience).