“Politics?! I Thought This Was About Science!”
The trope ignores the political agendas of pseudoscience, science funding and anti-science politicians.
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Skepticism
Current Battlefields in the Misinformation Wars
Taking on the threats of post-truth, fake news, “alternative facts” and fake fact checkers.
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“Alternative Facts” Are Really Just Misinformation
Why government-approval “alternative facts” should make you terrified.
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Rise of the Fake Fact-Checkers
Fake news and “alternative” facts are not the only adversaries. Watch out for fake fact-checkers.
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Sometimes the war against misinformation seems to be both endless and hopeless. Despite being massively contradicted by just about everything
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What Happened to Jeffrey Beall’s List of (Allegedly) Predatory Publishers?
Jeffrey Beall is an academic librarian at the Auraria Library at University of Colorado Denver located in Denver, Colorado. He
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