May 2019

Last week it was hard to avoid the video of Nancy Pelosi who had been slowed down to make her look drunk, then tweeted by presidential attorney Rudy Giuliani and shared widely on Fox News and social media. Faced with an expert consensus…

Who are the real instigators of these sites? Until recently, fake news websites operated from North Macedonia were widely believed to emerge spontaneously from local teenagers capitalizing on the digital gold rush that emerged from the…

Think, for example, of the Nazis. Nazi racial theory was false pseudoscience. Although they tried to back it up with scientific evidence, the Nazis nevertheless had to silence their rational faculties in order to develop a belief strong…