Misinformation: A Flawed Concept “Believe those who seek the truth,” André Gide once wrote, “doubt those who find it.” The same can be said of falsehoods. Angel Eduardo / Adam Goldstein 28 Oct 2024 · 6 min read
Misinformation Is Bad. Prohibiting It Is Worse A proposed Australian law aimed at blocking false content would likely be applied selectively—and thereby further erode public trust in mainstream information sources. The Quillette Editorial Board 29 Sep 2024 · 9 min read
The Great Misinformation Panic By going to war against "misinformation" governments are merely diverting finite resources from addressing real harm to people and property, which purportedly justifies the panic in the first place. Dara Macdonald 31 Jul 2023 · 8 min read
An Outback Conspiracy Misinformation results from the toxic combination of these two defining features, a lack of proximity to the Territory, and viewing the world through the lens of oppression. Matthew Blackwell 28 Nov 2021 · 13 min read
The Social Science Monoculture Doubles Down Obviously, greater intellectual diversity among researchers would be a key corrective, but adversarial collaboration is also critical. Keith E. Stanovich 30 Aug 2021 · 18 min read
The Strange Truth About Alternative Facts Now if a single moral judgment depends on a unit of analysis, then surely a political philosophy that imagines some sort of societal structure that maximizes some moral values (whatever they may be), must also depend on a unit of analysis. Stuart Doyle 29 Mar 2018 · 5 min read
