Search Results for “disinformation”

A Theory Of Mis- & Disinformation & Its Uses In Propaganda

Hillary wants (not unusually) to have her political enemies arrested. She says that people who post "misinformation" could be "criminally charged", and that this would be "a deterrent" against "misinformation."…

Culture

What Happened At An Academic Expert Disinformation Summit

We---but not Anon, who reports below---missed the Cambridge Disinformation Summit, held the last week of July (Videoes). Conference organizers described their sensitivity soirée thusly: Strategic disinformation is an accelerant for…

Culture

Meet The Experts Defining Official Disinformation & Official Truths

We told you this was happening when it was happening. Not everybody believed it; indeed, most (and here I exclude regular readers) did not. And, worse, most still do not,…

Statistics

Debunking Prebunking & Other Disinformation Scams

An article in Psychology Today, a deeply earnest and condemnatory article on disinformation and the brave efforts to "fight" it using "prebunking", contains the following sentence: "Every day around 9…

Statistics

Panel Of Scientists To Vote On Official Disinformation, Official Truths

One of the things you're sick of reading, and I'm tired of writing, is that if there is such a thing as Official Disinformation, there must necessarily be Official Truth,…

Culture Podcast

UPDATE: Everything We Warned About Official Disinformation Requiring Official Truths Was True

Experimenting with the podcast format. My voice is still not back to normal. If I did it right, the podcast is also at Spotify. If anybody uses it, please let…

Statistics

Bad Predictions Mean Bad Models, Even If You’re A Distinguished Expert

Suppose you're an Expert, or even an ordinary person, and you say, "If the world is like X, then Y will happen". Or you say or imply, "If the world…

Culture

FBI Lied To Facebook, Twitter, Etc. & Created Official Truths For Them To Define As “Disinformation”

https://twitter.com/minds/status/1562927481945980928 So the regime's secret police lied to Facebook, Twitter, and surely others (like Google), and said it would be in Facebook's and the others' best interest to censor a…

Briggs on Jung’s Synchronicity & CoincidenceJuly 17, 2025
Scott, One of my hobbies is mentalism, mental magic---I even performed a trick on a Vegas stage! I have lots…
James on Reader Opinion Requested: What Science Do You Find Sketchy, Exaggerated Or Wrong?July 16, 2025
The Aquatic Ape Hypothesis might be worthy of exploring for bad science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquatic_ape_hypothesis
Scott Locklin on Jung’s Synchronicity & CoincidenceJuly 16, 2025
There was a book on the correspondence between Jung and Wolfgang Pauli (who was a genius, but also an alcoholic…
Ralph Mertesdorf on Vegetarians Crave Power And Success More Than Meat Eaters Do, Study FindsJuly 16, 2025
I found another headline at that "Study Finds" site" "Many Texas Communities Are Dangerously Unprepared For Floods, And Lack Of…
Tars Tarkas on Vegetarians Crave Power And Success More Than Meat Eaters Do, Study FindsJuly 16, 2025
"39. She always wants to be the one who makes the decisions. She likes to be the leader." This is…