The Autism Epidemic That Wasn’t
The Trump administration’s scientific illiteracy about rates of autism is going to have catastrophic results.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 6 min read
Misinformation
A collection of 14 posts
The Science Misinformation Gap
The transatlantic battle over social media and censorship.
Jon Entine
· 8 min read
A Costly Misconception
Now that glyphosate has become a national-security issue, it’s time to revisit the source of misinformation about this controversial herbicide.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 10 min read
The BPA Panic and the Distortion of Science
A new article in MIT’s ‘Undark’ magazine recycles old misinformation about a supposedly toxic chemical.
Geoffrey C. Kabat
· 10 min read
The Media War on Israel
HonestReporting’s Executive Director, Gil Hoffman, joins Pamela Paresky to discuss how the global media has misrepresented Israel since the October 7 Hamas attacks—fueling a narrative war with real-world consequences.
Pamela Paresky
· 13 min read
Feelings, Facts, and Our Crisis of Truth
What we lose when the rigour of science and journalism gives way to an aural and visual narrative culture.
Claire Lehmann
· 7 min read
Against the Tyranny of Opinionated Ignorance
Let us not confuse the freedom to speak with the freedom to mislead.
Yuki Zeman
· 6 min read
Information Warfare: Why America Needs a Deterrence Strategy
Humankind’s propensity to believe convenient fiction is as old and strong as our propensity for war. The United States needs to adopt a pragmatic deterrence strategy.
Gary Geipel
· 6 min read
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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 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
· 5 min read