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Escape the Echo Chamber
Escape the Echo Chamber First you don’t hear other views. Then you can’t trust them. Your personal information network entraps you just like a cult Photo: Scott Olson/Getty Images Something has gone wrong with the flow of information. It’s not just that different people are drawing subtly different conclusions from the same evidence. It seems like different […]
The Search for the Truth in Douma
The Search for the Truth in Douma This is the story of a town called Douma, a ravaged, stinking place of smashed apartment blocks – and of an underground clinic whose images of suffering allowed three of the Western world’s most powerful nations to bomb Syria last week. There’s even a friendly doctor in a green […]
The Twilight of Authority
The Twilight of Authority I wrote a couple of weeks ago about the need for a rhetorical education—that is, an education that doesn’t presume to lay down the law about what’s true and what’s false, but instead teaches each individual how to understand and assess claims about truth and falsehood. That’s a concept many people […]
“GDP Growth Driving Rates Higher!” – Is That True?
“GDP Growth Driving Rates Higher!” – Is That True? “Peter Cook is the author of the‘Is That True?’ series of articles, which help explain the many statements and theories circulating in the mainstream financial media often presented as “truths.” The motives and psychology of market participants, which drives the difference between truth and partial-truth, are […]
Weaponized Consensus by the Collective Establishes Counterfeit Premises to Control Contrived Contingencies
Weaponized Consensus by the Collective Establishes Counterfeit Premises to Control Contrived Contingencies But evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse, deceiving, and being deceived. – 2 Timothy 3:13 They are like chaff that the wind blows away. – Psalm 1: 4 Many years ago I read a book entitled “People of the Lie” […]
In the Post-Truth Classroom
In the Post-Truth Classroom Photo by Heidi De Vries | CC BY 2.0 “It already feels as though we are living in an alternative science-fiction universe where no one agrees on what is true. Just think how much worse it will be when fake news becomes fake video. Democracy assumes that its citizens share the […]
Living With Truth Decay
Living With Truth Decay “Once a policy has been adopted and implemented, all subsequent activity becomes an effort to justify it” — Barbara Tuchman, The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam (1984. p. 245). In the 20th-century but still fun party game called Telephone, people sit in a circle and someone whispers a phrase […]
In the Western World Lies Have Displaced Truth
In the Western World Lies Have Displaced Truth Last year I was awarded Marquiss Who’s Who In America’s Lifetime Achievement Award. This did not prevent a hidden organization, PropOrNot, from attempting to brand me and my website along with 200 others “Putin stooges or agents” for our refusal to lie for the corrupt, anti-American, anti-constitutional, […]
The Battle for Truth
2018 Edelman Trust Barometer The Battle for Truth As we begin 2018, we find the world in a new phase in the loss of trust: the unwillingness to believe information, even from those closest to us. The loss of confidence in information channels and sources is the fourth wave of the trust tsunami. The moorings of […]
AI Censorship and the Power of Steem to Preserve Truth
AI Censorship and the Power of Steem to Preserve Truth Just read a great article by Caitlin Johnstone over at Medium where she discusses the automation of censorship tools by companies like Twitter and Google. Putting paid Julian Assange’s warning last year on this, Ms. Johnstone details just some of the abuses that Twitter and Google engaged in […]
The 10 Habits of Logical People
The 10 Habits of Logical People The authentically logical person keeps his logic rooted in truth and never lets it devolve into mere verbal trickery. Becoming a logical person is not just a matter of memorizing and applying formulas, or learning how to tell the difference between a valid and an invalid syllogism. Rather, it […]
People Ignore Facts That Contradict Their False Beliefs
People Ignore Facts That Contradict Their False Beliefs The more people there are who ignore facts that contradict their beliefs, the likelier a dictatorship will emerge within a given country. Here is how aristocracies, throughout the Ages, have controlled the masses, by taking advantage of this widespread tendency people have, to ignore contrary facts: What social scientists call “confirmation bias” and […]
No Gas in Florida: Give Truth a Chance
No Gas in Florida: Give Truth a Chance Photo by el-toro | CC BY 2.0 As I heard Florida’s governor demanding gas, I wondered why they don’t learn from Cuba, and send buses. Cuba was there in the CBC newscasts about Florida. It was the country under the satellite image, under the “lingering” eye of […]
The Weaponization of History and Journalism
THE WEAPONIZATION OF HISTORY AND JOURNALISM we don’t need no stinkin’ facts In the United States, facts, an important element of truth, are not important. They are not important in the media, politics, universities, historical explanations, or the courtroom. Non-factual explanations of the collapse of three World Trade Center buildings are served up as the […]
