Is This What You're Defining?

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There is research and conspiracy a cognition that people who tick the box for one conspiracy are more likely to tick the box for a whole bunch. So i think what you're arguing is that by going down the rabbit hole of one crazy idea, it kind of opens up your cognition to be open to these other things that may come down to pie. We don't even know what the future conspiracy theories are going to be. But we know you're going to be more susceptible if you're in our bubble and we're feeding you this. Ye, wut it's about? Is my definition of this type of disinformation. F propaganda is what you're out to do is organize and manipulate the social

Disinformation. Trolling. Conspiracies. Social media pile-ons. Campus intolerance. On the surface, these recent additions to our daily vocabulary appear to have little in common. But together, they are driving an epistemic crisis: a multi-front challenge to America’s ability to distinguish fact from fiction and elevate truth above falsehood.

In episode 190, Michael Shermer speaks with Jonathan Rauch as he reaches back to the parallel eighteenth-century developments of liberal democracy and science to explain what he calls the “Constitution of Knowledge” — our social system for turning disagreement into truth. His book is a sweeping and readable description of how every American can help defend objective truth and free inquiry from threats as far away as Russia and as close as the cellphone.