By Nick Enfield With the power of the vote comes the responsibility to make our choice an informed one. We need true and relevant information. But just when we need it most, election season puts it further out of reach. Not only do we struggle against pernicious...
By Nick Enfield When you “like” a story online, you’re not just telling your social media followers that you like it, you’re also exposing them to that story. And they, in turn, can expose others, and so on. We are interconnected in ways we can hardly imagine,...
December 15, 2018 14:00-15:00 Speakers: Michael Rich, President, RAND Alain Gresh, Editor, OrientXXI Ahmed Elmagarmid, Executive director, QCRI Nicholas Enfield, Director, Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Institute, University of Sydney Steve Clemons (moderator), Editor-at-Large, The Atlantic ...
Do we need cultural change in our relation to truth? Celebrate the launch of the Sydney Social Sciences and Humanities Advanced Research Centre (SSSHARC). Our expert panel will discuss the role of humanities in addressing the 'post truth' crisis. Release date: 21 November 2018 ...
Julianne Schultz, Griffith University In October 2005 Stephen Colbert was just starting his eponymous show. It is somewhat chilling to realise that this was when he came up with the word truthiness: it seems so now. It has taken a while to reach maturity and morphed into...
By Nick Enfield The problem is not that people don’t care. It is that our circle of regard for truth is irrationally small It is often said that “people don’t care about truth”. But is this really the case? Imagine you are falsely accused of cheating in...
[audio mp3="https://posttruthinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Cynthia-PTI-1.mp3"][/audio] Public trust in science depends on both real and perceived threats to the rigor and reproducibility of its methodological process. This seminar will explore common biases and statistical errors in nutrition and obesity scientific literature, as well as ways to improve transparency and reliability...
Jennifer Byrne, University of Sydney I’m a regular biomedical scientist, although in one sense I’m perhaps a bit different, in that I really like the process of writing. From speaking with colleagues and teaching postgraduate students about the process of scientific writing for more than ten years,...
When we talk, we follow certain ground rules, which are set out in what philosophers call “language games”. Each game has its own set of rules - but problems arise when not everyone is clear which game is being played. Perhaps most important is the informing...
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