An objection to (testimonial) reductionism. If reductionism is true, then, in order to avoid testimonial skepticism, we must have enough testimony-independent evidence to justify many of our testimonial beliefs. But we don’t have enough evidence and we know testimonial skepticism is false. Thus, reductionism is false.
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