Evolutionary psychologist Steven Pinker is rebuked for the view he represents in a recent essay for Skeptic, “Why We Are Not Living in a Post Truth Era”
Tag: Post-Truth
Native American creationism viewed favorably in a recent court ruling in Canada
Post-truth science will not be, in principle, either positive or negative about creationism; everything depends on the role it plays in power struggles.
Getting at what we MEAN by “truth”
Yeah, truth. In an age when fishwraps claim to be telling us “The Truth” even while books are written about post-truth (Oxford’s Word of the Year 2016), a look at the different things people can mean does not come amiss.
Darwinism vs. ID: A game of foxes vs. lions
From my (O’Leary for News) review of sociologist Steve Fuller’s book, Post-Truth: Knowledge as a Power Game: How ID Foxes Can Beat the Darwinian Lions Fuller clearly finds the foxes more interesting and sympathetic figures than the lions: “The lion rules by focused shows of force, as opposed to the fox’s diverse displays of cunning.” […]