The Flight from Truth: The Reign of Deceit in the Age of InformationIn the tradition of Without Marx or Jesus and How Democrats Perish, Revel issues a call to arms against the most insidious and pervasive force in the world today: the dissemination of false information, the withholding of truths, the distrtions of the day. A brilliant, impassioned, well-argued book. |
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... question of determining whether our knowl- edge has increased or not . It is clear enough that knowledge , and partic- ularly scientific knowledge , continues to increase uninterruptedly . The decisive question concerns the place that ...
... question of determining whether our knowl- edge has increased or not . It is clear enough that knowledge , and partic- ularly scientific knowledge , continues to increase uninterruptedly . The decisive question concerns the place that ...
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... question of knowing if he strives to do so ; not a question of knowing if a historian can know all the facts , but if he gives due consideration to all the facts he knows , or if he really seeks to find out all those that can be known ...
... question of knowing if he strives to do so ; not a question of knowing if a historian can know all the facts , but if he gives due consideration to all the facts he knows , or if he really seeks to find out all those that can be known ...
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... questions which certainly honor those who raise them , albeit not without a certain narcissism . But unfortunately ... question is raised , the negative reactions manifested by the journalistic community are exceedingly sharp , not to ...
... questions which certainly honor those who raise them , albeit not without a certain narcissism . But unfortunately ... question is raised , the negative reactions manifested by the journalistic community are exceedingly sharp , not to ...
Contents
On Our Resistance to Information | 3 |
What Is Our Civilization? II | 11 |
On Simple Lies | 19 |
Copyright | |
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