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It needn’t end this way.
Smoking … and mirrors.
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If you want to know how to spin alternative facts, just ask the PR gurus who kept the world smoking.
UK scientists protest against proposed cuts in 2010.
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From mistrust in experts to fake news, it has never been more important for scientists to talk directly to the public.
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Whether the ubiquity of fiction has devalued truth or enhanced morality has been in doubt for over 2,000 years.
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How to define the public role of universities in the age of post-truth populism.
Does your nose grow if it’s a falsehood, not a lie?
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Alternate realities don’t just exist in politics – and not all falsehoods are lies. Distortions of the truth can range from a normal part of human nature to pathological.
Intellectual inquiry and expertise are under sustained attack, says Barney Glover.
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Our need for unbiased, well-researched information has never been greater.
Universities Australia chair Barney Glover will launch a defence of the value of expertise and evidence.
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Barney Glover says the post-truth era is a challenge for universities.
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In Africa, the idea of a post-truth era - which by implication fundamentally presupposes the existence of an era in which ‘truth’ was self-evident - is folly.
White House spokesman Sean Spicer and senior advisor Kellyanne Conway chat.
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How do we determine what is fact? An archaeologist explains how the answer has changed over time and why it matters so much now.
There’s never been greater need for the study of what we don’t know, and why we’re not supposed to know it.
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Why do alternative histories of a Nazified world again have such commercial and cultural traction?
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We build in extra checks and balances, including blind peer review by a second academic expert, additional scrutiny and editorial oversight.
Dramatic. But also fictitious, like The Sun’s article.
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The reporting of crackpot theories as news by mainstream news outlets only damages the credibility of the media and science, and undermines public trust in both.
Donald Trump meets with professors and students at the Cleveland Arts and Social Sciences Academy in Cleveland, Ohio.
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Scientists must bear some responsibility for the post-truth era and the current crisis in democracy.
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Musicians have largely greeted Trump with the sound of silence – and in doing so, they check the normalisation of the current administration.
Demonetisation is just the latest example of post-truth politics at work.
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Only by privileging an English-speaking, Western position can we say that ‘post-truth’ emerged in 2016.
There’s never been greater need for the study of what we don’t know, and why we’re not supposed to know it.
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The BBC’s Sherlock – along with most contemporary adaptations – seems to indicate that the values of the intellect are not those of society.
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Unrestricted access to information is vital to a vibrant democracy.But if this information is inaccurate, biased or falsified, the fundamental freedom of informed choice is denied.