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The Poisoning of the American Mind
About this book
What would you have to believe in order to dress up as a shaman, paint your face, and storm the U.S. Capitol? What could possibly lead somebody to claim that it upholds white supremacy to encourage hard work, self-reliance, rational thinking, punctuality, and politeness?
Such behaviors would have been unimaginable only a few years ago. And yet here we are, witnessing millions of people across the political spectrum displaying these clear indications of an epistemically poisoned mind. Both red America and blue America are retreating into their own information bubbles, seceding from a common reality. Both consume far too much misinformation and disinformation, developing worldviews that can sometimes be unintelligible to others.
This book explores these disturbing developments and what they mean for our society and implores us all to recover a shared sense of what is true.
Such behaviors would have been unimaginable only a few years ago. And yet here we are, witnessing millions of people across the political spectrum displaying these clear indications of an epistemically poisoned mind. Both red America and blue America are retreating into their own information bubbles, seceding from a common reality. Both consume far too much misinformation and disinformation, developing worldviews that can sometimes be unintelligible to others.
This book explores these disturbing developments and what they mean for our society and implores us all to recover a shared sense of what is true.
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Civismo y ciudadaníaTable of contents
- Dedication
- Acknowledgements
- Overview
- Chapter 1: Golden Age of Information
- Chapter 2: Epistemic Crisis
- Chapter 3: Ideological Silos and Epistemic Secession
- I. Defending Truth
- Chapter 4: The Constitution of Knowledge
- Chapter 5: Why Should We Trust Science?
- Chapter 6: Understanding Science
- Chapter 7: How Science Works
- Chapter 8: A Skeptical Manifesto
- Chapter 9: Common Tactics of Science Denialism
- Chapter 10: There is Plenty of Trustworthy Journalism
- Chapter 11: Identifying Reliable News Sources
- Chapter 12: How NewsGuard Works
- Chapter 13: How the Media Bias Chart is Created
- Chapter 14: The Harper’s Letter
- II. Problems in Right-wing Silos
- Chapter 15: Deceit and the Danger to Democracy
- Chapter 16: A Fire Hose of Dishonesty
- Chapter 17: Fox’s Pander-for-Profit Business Model
- Chapter 18: Please Lie to Me, Tucker Carlson
- Chapter 19: How We Know Recent Elections Were Not Stolen
- Chapter 20: Truth and Consequences
- Chapter 21: The “Great Replacement” and the “Big Lie”
- Chapter 22: The “Ground Zero Mosque” Presaged Today’s GOP
- Chapter 23: Anti-Immigrant Lies
- Chapter 24: QAnon and the Satanic Panics of Yesteryear
- Chapter 25: How Industry Undermines Public Health
- Chapter 26: I Was an Exxon-funded Climate Scientist
- Chapter 27: The Alt-Right and Moral Righteousness
- III. Problems in Left-wing Silos
- Chapter 28: Virtuous Lies
- Chapter 29: Universities Must Choose One Telos
- Chapter 30: Defining “Wokeness”
- Chapter 31: Ideology and the Social Sciences
- Chapter 32: Attacks on Reality from the Left
- Chapter 33: Bad Behavioral Science Exposed
- Chapter 34: The Questionable Science of Microaggressions
- Chapter 35: Problems with the IAT
- Chapter 36: The Gender Identity Debate
- Chapter 37: The Alt-Left and Moral Righteousness
- IV. I Don’t Know — Therefore, Aliens
- Chapter 38: Common Traits of Conspiracy Thinkers
- Chapter 39: Flat Earthers and Disinformation
- Chapter 40: QAnon, Descartes, and Brains in Vats
- Chapter 41: Anatomy of a Viral Conspiracy Theory
- Chapter 42: Fighting Conspiracy Theories with Evidence
- V. Parting Thoughts
- Chapter 43: In Defense of Merit in Science
- Chapter 44: The Importance of Facts and Expertise
- Chapter 45: What Caused the Alt-Left and Alt-Right?
- Chapter 46: Disinformation, Democracy, and the Rule of Law
- Chapter 47: Strengthening Information Ecosystems
- Chapter 48: We Need a Shared Reality
- Chapter 49: The Epistemological Conditions of a Liberal Democratic Republic
- Chapter 50: Searching for Answers
- Endnotes