The History of Ignorance

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i was always interested in puzzles and mysteries and illusions, even from from being a kid. I remember in high school trying to figure out the illusion whydt, why does the moon appear large on the horizon? And i basically, i think, figured it out. It seen how we live in a low dome cosmology where the sky is about two or three miles high,. So it make sense that if something appears the same above you and on the horizon, it will actually create an illusion of being much larger on the horizon.

Yes, there is an -ology for that. Dr. Robert Proctor is a Stanford professor of the History of Science and co-edited the book “Agnotology: The Making & Unmaking of Ignorance,” having coined the word 30 years ago. We chat about everything from the true evils of tobacco marketing, to the sugar lobby, to racial injustice, horse vision, the psychology of the Flat Earther movement, which countries have the highest rates of climate denial, empathy, how to navigate difficult conversations and why it's critical to dismantle the systems of willful ignorance, starting locally.

Dr. Robert Proctor’s book, Agnotology

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