{"product_id":"post-truth","title":"Post-Truth","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow we arrived in a post-truth era, when  alternative facts  replace actual facts, and feelings have more weight than evidence.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eAre we living in a post-truth world, where  alternative facts  replace actual facts and feelings have more weight than evidence  How did we get here  In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, Lee McIntyre traces the development of the post-truth phenomenon from science denial through the rise of  fake news,  from our psychological blind spots to the public's retreat into  information silos. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhat, exactly, is post-truth  Is it wishful thinking, political spin, mass delusion, bold-faced lying  McIntyre analyzes recent examples claims about inauguration crowd size, crime statistics, and the popular vote and finds that post-truth is an assertion of ideological supremacy by which its practitioners try to compel someone to believe something regardless of the evidence. Yet post-truth didn't begin with the 2016 election; the denial of scientific facts about smoking, evolution, vaccines, and climate change offers a road map for more widespread fact denial. Add to this the wired-in cognitive biases that make us feel that our conclusions are based on good reasoning even when they are not, the decline of traditional media and the rise of social media, and the emergence of fake news as a political tool, and we have the ideal conditions for post-truth. McIntyre also argues provocatively that the right wing borrowed from postmodernism specifically, the idea that there is no such thing as objective truth in its attacks on science and facts.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMcIntyre argues that we can fight post-truth, and that the first step in fighting post-truth is to understand it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Buchserien.de","offers":[{"title":"Neuware","offer_id":54029400408402,"sku":"9780262535045","price":16.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0615\/7002\/3593\/files\/unnamed_43d45bf9-300a-4fdb-9cef-bb14e5efd0d2.jpg?v=1784319488","url":"https:\/\/www.buchserien.de\/products\/post-truth","provider":"Buchserien.de","version":"1.0","type":"link"}