The Relationship Between Discourse and Truth

"The marketplace of ideas is useful and powerful. It's a powerful force, but it's completely unrefined and completely useless," he says. "Discourse has the same relation to truth that coke relief has to cocaine." The public mind will often seize on errant fictions rather than figuring out what is true, writes Zuckerman. 'You can sort of use crowdsourcing to some extent like that'