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Tuesday, September 3, 2024
The problem with research
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If there's one phrase that torques the absolute hell out of me -- and just about every actual scientist out there -- it's, "Wel...
Friday, May 14, 2021
The network of nonsense
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I've long been fascinated with communication network theory -- the model that maps out the rules behind the spread of information (and i...
Saturday, March 28, 2020
Contagious disinformation
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Well, that didn't take long. All it took was Donald Trump harping on the "Chinese virus" thing for a few days, and all of hi...
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Misremembering the truth
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There are two distinct, but similar-sounding, cognitive biases that I've written about many times here at Skeptophilia because they are ...
Tuesday, April 4, 2017
The post-truth world
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The Oxford Dictionary word of the year for 2016 was "post-truth." The OED defines "post-truth" as "relating to ...
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