Skeptophilia

Fighting Gullibility with Sarcasm, 6 days a week

Showing posts with label falsehoods. Show all posts
Showing posts with label falsehoods. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 16, 2025

The morass of lies

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It will come as no shock to regular readers of Skeptophilia  that I really  hate it when people make shit up and then misrepresent it as the...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

The tapestry of lies

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In my novel Sephirot , the main character, an ordinary guy named Duncan Kyle, finds himself lost in an interlocking maze of worlds, each of ...
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Friday, May 17, 2024

Well, actually...

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American economist Thomas Sowell famously said, "Endless repetition does not make something true." I used to run into examples of...
Tuesday, October 3, 2023

What's in a name?

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In the way that viral nonsense always goes, every few months I see a resurgence of a post (actually a collection of similar posts) which tak...
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Friday, March 25, 2022

Truth by repetition

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You probably have heard the quote attributed to Nazi propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels : "If you tell a lie big enough and continue t...
Saturday, September 14, 2019

The illusion of truth

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Because we apparently need one more cognitive bias to challenge our confidence in what we hear on the news on a daily basis, today I'm g...
Monday, September 7, 2015

Fast forward

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Can I plead with you on bended knee about something? Will you all promise  that if you forward something, or post it on Facebook or Twitte...
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Gordon Bonnet
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