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22 May 09

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24 Jan 09

When more is less: culturally constucted ignorance - Home - Doug Johnson's Blue Skunk Blog

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determine which could be considered the most reliable?
rate the credibility of information about a dread disease if gleaned from each of the sites above.

Clive Thompson on How More Info Leads to Less Knowledge

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agnotology. Derived from the Greek root agnosis, it is "the study of culturally constructed ignorance."
"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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- 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.
- combat agnotological rot. Like Wikipedia: It encourages users to build real knowledge through consensus,