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The War Against Misinformation Is Over. The Lies Won
- tim-tday 7mo agoThis war has been going on for all of human history. We’ve made things up for thousands of years. Every myth, every story, thousands of made up gods, religions, creation stories. We’ve only recently (in the last several hundred years, and particularly in the last hundred) started trying to make sure the things we believe actually resemble reality. You think the war is lost but you are ignoring thousands of years of unchecked bullshit. The war is continuous. It is potentially the most important thing we fight and we will always fight it.
- giardini 7mo agoFTFA "The experiment had revealed an “extremely undesirable, and previously unidentified, side effect of warnings: the more often older adults were told that a claim was false, the more likely they were to remember it erroneously as true after a three day delay,” they wrote. (While the researchers fixated on older adults, the data itself shows that this is a cross-generational issue.) "People walked into that study pretty sure that shark fins didn’t treat arthritis. They were told repeatedly that shark fins do not treat arthritis. And they walked out of the study believing that shark fins treat arthritis.",,, "We need to go on an informational diet. We need to become more discerning with what we want to know and what we need to know." END FTFA IOW follow Rolf Dobelli's advice and "Stop reading the news!": https://www.amazon.com/Stop-Reading-News-information-overload/dp/1529342686 https://www.amazon.com/Stop-Reading-News-information-overloa...