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The Misinformation Age - How False Beliefs Spread (Hardcover)
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The Misinformation Age - How False Beliefs Spread (Hardcover)
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The social dynamics of "alternative facts": why what you believe
depends on who you know "Empowering and thoroughly researched, this
book offers useful contemporary analysis and possible solutions to
one of the greatest threats to democracy."-Kirkus Reviews Editors'
choice, New York Times Book Review * Recommended reading,
Scientific American Why should we care about having true beliefs?
And why do demonstrably false beliefs persist and spread despite
bad, even fatal, consequences for the people who hold them?
Philosophers of science Cailin O'Connor and James Weatherall argue
that social factors, rather than individual psychology, are what's
essential to understanding the spread and persistence of false
beliefs. It might seem that there's an obvious reason that true
beliefs matter: false beliefs will hurt you. But if that's right,
then why is it (apparently) irrelevant to many people whether they
believe true things or not? The Misinformation Age, written for a
political era riven by "fake news," "alternative facts," and
disputes over the validity of everything from climate change to the
size of inauguration crowds, shows convincingly that what you
believe depends on who you know. If social forces explain the
persistence of false belief, we must understand how those forces
work in order to fight misinformation effectively.
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