Bernie Sanders in Los Angeles: 'The truth is that Trump is a pathological liar'

“We are looking at a totally new political world,” he said. “If we play by the old rules, we will lose and they will win. Our job is not to play by the old rules.”

Fakes and truth in modern Lithuanian politics

F ake news has become a great problem in our life. The more so, questionable news and lack of clarity can seriously influence society and bring chaos to the minds of ordinary people.

A pattern of shading the truth takes its toll

DONALD TRUMP is our first post-truth president. And he may well be the first of many.

The Oxford Dictionaries website chose “post-truth” as its 2016 word of the year, in large part due to Trump’s success in the presidential election. It defined post-truth as “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.”

Truth to tell: populism and the immigration debate

The populist surge that helped propel Brexit isn’t going to help the UK take control of its borders, writes Tim Bale. Neither Labour nor the Conservatives have been honest with voters about immigration policy, and that shows little signs of changing after a hard Brexit. The gap between rhetoric and reality has given politicians the opportunity to indulge in populist promises. People sense they are not being told the whole truth – but do they want to hear it?

Just as political scientists had begun to take it for granted we had moved from an era of ‘position politics’ (the clash of big ideas between two tribes) to an era of ‘valence politics’ (where competence and credibility counts most)

Trump vs. Truth: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

Donald Trump spreads a lot of false information thanks to his daily consumption of morning cable news. If only we could sneak some facts into the president’s media diet.

Scientists 'wake' microbes, trapped in crystals for thousands of years

The researchers were able to “wake up” the long-dormant microbial lifeforms, which may have been trapped in the crystals between 10,000 and 50,000 years, a NASA researcher announced at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science on Friday, National Geographic reported. 

People have no idea which sciences are robust

If there’s one thing everyone needs to understand about science, it’s that science is uncertain. It’s a process of gradually getting closer to the truth, with self-correcting mechanisms built in. Unfortunately, communicating this uncertainty without undermining trust in science is tricky.

Don’t go with your gut: How does the public’s view of science go so wrong?

From tens of thousands of safe and effective over-the-counter drugs to the directions on a car’s GPS system, Americans trust the work of experts on a daily basis. Rather, it is more accurate to say that the American public distrusts scientists, rather than science itself. Scientists, however, should be consoled by the fact that they are disdained not for their work, but for being part of an undifferentiated mass of “experts” whom a fair number of Americans now view as, at best, a suspect political class, and, at worst, as an enemy.

Commentary: Making science understood and valued

The truth about science is much more prosaic. Detailed case studies on the history of chemistry and physics show that the role of genius in advancing those fields - and even the role of rationality - is overstated

 64 2 1 70 Why English and general knowledge are important

Proficiency in English is a normal requirement in the private sector, particularly in the tourism industry.

Instead of using our diversity as our strength, bigotry has turned it into a weakness. Instead of embracing English to reach out to the world, we have let it slip and are happy to be local champions.

Corey Lewandowski on Trump's wiretapping allegations

Former Trump campaign manager weighs in on 'Justice with Judge Jeanine'

Revolutionising the global knowledge society

revolutions serve as major catalysts for change. In other words, revolutions upset the established order. Some revolutions were particularly important

In the modern era (1450 CE to the present day) the Printing Revolution – triggered by the invention of the metal movable-type printing press in Germany – represents a clear line of demarcation that helped usher in the move towards a global knowledge society.

Former DNI James Clapper: ‘I Can Deny’ Wiretap of Trump Tower

"there was no such wiretap activity mounted against the president, the president-elect at the time, or as a candidate, or against his campaign,

"I can deny it."

What is Natural Selection?