Does Biology Make Us Liars? | The New Republic - 0 views
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Ranking The Battleground States
How do people or companies with vested interests spread ignorance and obfuscate knowledge?
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BBC - Future - The man who studies the spread of ignorance - 0 views
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In one of the paper’s most revealing sections, it looks at how to market cigarettes to the mass public: “Doubt is our product since it is the best means of competing with the ‘body of fact’ that exists in the mind of the general public.
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It comes from agnosis, the neoclassical Greek word for ignorance or ‘not knowing’, and ontology, the branch of metaphysics which deals with the nature of being. Agnotology is the study of wilful acts to spread confusion and deceit, usually to sell a product or win favour.
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