Beyond Selidor

The more I think about it, the more I think the "why isn't anyone talking about this?" thing may be related to a general anti-expert attitude? The sense that an average person is just as qualified as a journalist to determine what sources are credible, and indeed make themself into a source of information for other people to draw from...I'm not sure.

I agree in part, but I also think it comes from an attitude that 'raising awareness' is a sufficient act of activism, as opposed to more concrete things such as protesting, contacting elected representatives, joining a campaign, running for office, or contributing financially to a charity. It's better to concentrate one's energies in concrete ways on a few causes than spread disinformation by 'raising awareness' of every single cause, but people don't recognise this.