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How the 'net, which I love, causes "agnotology. Derived from the Greek root agnosis, it is "the study of culturally constructed ignorance." Why teaching critical thinking is increasingly important.
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agnotology. Derived from the Greek root agnosis, it is "the study of culturally constructed ignorance."
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special interests work hard to create confusion
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Olivier Le DeuffQuand l'information n'implique pas la connaissance
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And the proportion of Americans who believe God did not guide evolution? It's 14 percent today, a two-point decline since the '90s, according to Gallup.
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"People always assume that if someone doesn't know something, it's because they haven't paid attention or haven't yet figured it out," Proctor says. "But ignorance also comes from people literally suppressing truth—or drowning it out—or trying to make it so confusing that people stop caring about what's true and what's not."
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Todd Suomela"But ignorance also comes from people literally suppressing truth—or drowning it out—or trying to make it so confusing that people stop caring about what's true and what's not."
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Robert Proctor doesn't think so. A historian of science at Stanford, Proctor points out that when it comes to many contentious subjects, our usual relationship to information is reversed: Ignorance increases.
He has developed a word inspired by this trend: agnotology. Derived from the Greek root agnosis, it is "the study of culturally constructed ignorance."
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As Farhad Manjoo notes in True Enough: Learning to Live in a Post-Fact Society, if we argue about what a fact means, we're having a debate. If we argue about what the facts are, it's agnotological Armageddon, where reality dies screaming.
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Michel BauwensRobert Proctor doesn't think so. A historian of science at Stanford, Proctor points out that when it comes to many contentious subjects, our usual relationship to information is reversed: Ignorance increases. He has developed a word inspired by this trend
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Howard RheingoldRobert Proctor doesn't think so. A historian of science at Stanford, Proctor points out that when it comes to many contentious subjects, our usual relationship to information is reversed: Ignorance increases.
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Brad Ovenell-CarterA historian of science at Stanford, Proctor points out that when it comes to many contentious subjects, our usual relationship to information is reversed: Ignorance increases.
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Joan Vinall-Cox
How the 'net, which I love, causes "agnotology. Derived from the Greek root agnosis, it is "the study of culturally constructed ignorance." Why teaching critical thinking is increasingly important.
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agnotology. Derived from the Greek root agnosis, it is "the study of culturally constructed ignorance."
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special interests work hard to create confusion
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Susan FunkAnnotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.wired.com%2Ftechbiz%2Fpeople%2Fmagazine%2F17-02%2Fst_thompson
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agnotology. Derived from the Greek root agnosis, it is "the study of culturally constructed ignorance."
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"But ignorance also comes from people literally suppressing truth—or drowning it out—or trying to make it so confusing that people stop caring about what's true and what's not."
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