3 February 2017 21 research projects awarded $3M under new Sydney funding scheme, SREI 2020 A real-time bullsh*t detector, a unique pathogen discovery centre and a new way to combat untreatable blindness are among the 21 projects funded under a new Sydney funding scheme. The Sydney Research Excellence Initiative -...
Gordon Pennycook, James Allan Cheyne, Nathaniel Barr, Derek J. Koehler, Jonathan A. Fugelsang Although bullshit is common in everyday life and has attracted attention from philosophers, its reception (critical or ingenuous) has not, to our knowledge, been subject to empirical investigation. Here we focus on pseudo-profound...
Dr Alana Mann – April 27 From food scares to food scarcity, this is an industry that has been operating in post-truth mode for years. In the fields, laboratories and our kitchens scientific evidence and cultural rationality collide daily. This talk will tackle post-truth headlines on Green...
Seminar 3 in the Post-Truth Seminar Series 2017 This week the seminar series shifts its focus onto the issue of truth and rigour in academic research. Professor Jennifer Byrne will be examining processes of peer review and the increasingly competitive research environment in order to evaluate the...
March 13, 2015, at 1:02 pm I don’t know if this could really be called “new”, but it’s a form of anti-intellectualism that usually goes unnoticed. I find it particularly frustrating because I so often see it often among people who claim to respect knowledge, education,...
Dr Adam McNamara, School of Memetics; University of Gyvaphuk (UK) Abstract: Propaganda is traditionally considered the use of emotionally provocative imagery to distort facts to a relatively wide target audience such as a nation. Today one sees propaganda in the workplace and notably it comes in the...
Enfield, N. J., New Internationalist There is increasing alarm at the rise of a post-truth doctrine of alternative facts, currently flourishing most notably in the populist contexts of Trump's ascendance and the recent Brexit campaign. Just one example, from too many of late, comes from White...
August 26, 2015, at 1:44 pm Note: This post also appears on Insight, the official blog of the Skeptic Society. A few months ago I wrote about the psychology of vaccine denial. In the post I discussed two publications, one of which (Nyhan, et al.) found: Corrective information...