Mark R. Kelly
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Cailin O’Connor and James Owen Weatherall, THE MISINFORMATION AGE
Subtitled “How False Beliefs Spread” (Yale University Press, 2019, 266pp, including 80pp of notes, bibliography, acknowledgements, and index) This is an interesting enough book that wasn’t quite what I was expecting. It seems right up my alley: why do so … Continue reading
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