FACT DENIERS AND CONSPIRACY THEORISTS IMPEDE THE CIRCULATION OF VERIFIABLE TRUTHS – CONFERENCE TOLD
June 1st, 2019
Flat Earth theories. Anti-vaccination conspiracies. Climate change denials. Such deep held beliefs are impeding the job of unveiling and spreading verifiable truths, speakers at the Worldviews International Conference on Media and Higher Education stressed. Educators and journalists who made up a panel on ‘Scientific research, ‘post-truth’ and fake news: What’s next?’ warned of incessant efforts to deny the truth and also actively manipulate it with falsehoods.
Moderator Ivan Semeniuk, science correspondent for Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper, told ...
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