Finding the Truth

Jennifer Delgado reviews the four idols which Francis Bacon determined to be the cause of cognative impairments that prevent us from identifying the truth.

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Pleasant Falsehood

Elizabeth Kolbert shares research that people are more concerned about agreeing with their group than believing accurate facts .

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Fake News Database From Politico

Cristiano Lima and Andrew Britz report on a "fake news" database created by Politico. The database can be searched here: https://www.politico.com/interactives/2018/is-this-true.

Note that Politico is critical of the current administration, and, like Wikipedia, nominations of "fake news" websites are submitted by the public (probably mainly Politico readers). So the database may express a bias against conservative viewpoints.

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News Literacy

Teghan Simonton discusses new literacy in an age of diverse understandings.

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Interrogation Through Torture Fails

Ian Leslie reports on how to get truthful answers from a subject.

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Fact Checking

Mike Elgan reviews the need for fact checking and offers links to fact checking sites such as:

• Emergent
• FactCheck.org
• Hoax-Slayer.com
• Politifact
• Snopes
• Truth or Ficton

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