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We learn about agnotology, which studies why and how people willfully spread ignorance

Dr. Naomi Wolf is a bestselling author, columnist, and professor; she is a graduate of Yale University and received a doctorate from Oxford. She is cofounder

A bid to create an electric car club in the Upper Amman Valley has been handed a major funding boost by the National Lottery.

This week Congress can expose the deceptions of Big Oil as it did for Big Tobacco nearly three decades ago.

Industry has long profited by casting doubt on science. But how did conspiracy theories and lies come to supplant America's faith in reason and truth?

Once my parents were no longer living, my sister and I sold the family home. That meant I had to do something I had never done--find a place other than the house at 648 Carter Road to spend the night when visiting Arkadelphia.

20/07/2021 23:38 El jueves 12 de marzo del 2020 no hubo clase normal. Fue anunciado el confinamiento por la pandemia. Ante muchas caras de extrañeza improvisé dos reflexiones. La primera: hay que poner toda la confianza en la investigación científica. La ciencia compromete la vida, no solo la verdad. La segunda reflexión: los valores son igualmente necesarios. Con ellos nos jugamos la convivencia y el estado de ánimo personal. La pandemia lo está corroborando. Pero urge resaltar un fenó...

A coordinated program of public deception that spanned four decades has become a template for modern disinformation

The filter tip will keep you fit Kiwis loved their smokes. Tobacco use climbed from 0.9 kilgrams a year per person in 1890 to almost 1.4kg a year in 1920. But ready-made cigarettes were slow starters, making up less than half of all tobacco use until 1955. By then, three out of four Kiwi men smoked and a third of women were puffing on that Virginia tobacco. While filters had already made an appearance, early models were mostly crude stubs designed to hold in that lucrative leaf. Charlotte C...

by Maxine Joselow (E&E News) In 2006, a federal judge issued a scathing ruling that would reverberate across the country. “Over the course of more than 50 years, Defendants lied, misrepresented and deceived the American public,” Judge Gladys Kessler of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia wrote in a nearly 1,700-page opinion. “Defendants have marketed and sold their lethal product with zeal, with deception, with a single-minded focus on their financial success, and with...