The Gradual Extinction of Accepted Truths

[Fitzcaraldo215]

Not very "in depth", but an interesting commentary on the general decline of authority in today's world from the NY Times. Yes, the Internet is a big factor. For some reason, the article's title was changed. It ran in the Science Section today with the title of this thread, but it apparently had an earlier title which is equally on target:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/25/s...-hand-picked-truths.html?ref=todayspaper&_r=0

 

[amirm]

Good read. Reminds me of an engineering blog I was listening to yesterday. A lady engineer loves to take apart circuit boards of space era and upload them to Youtube. When you do that, Google engine asks you to give it some tags to help with searches and suggests a few. She said that the suggestion is always something like "conspiracy theory!" That means there is a lot more videos about Nasa/Space that is put up there to talk about conspiracy theories than the real deal! Kind of shameful that our society has created such a false record of what happened.

 

[dallasjustice]

The moon landings were really filmed in a Hollywood studio. It's my reality, so you cant question it.

"You can put a man through school but you cannot make him think." Ben Harper, People Lead

Seriously, all the newly available info on the web is a great thing. But folks need critical thinking skills to understand it.

Good read. Reminds me of an engineering blog I was listening to yesterday. A lady engineer loves to take apart circuit boards of space era and upload them to Youtube. When you do that, Google engine asks you to give it some tags to help with searches and suggests a few. She said that the suggestion is always something like "conspiracy theory!" That means there is a lot more videos about Nasa/Space that is put up there to talk about conspiracy theories than the real deal! Kind of shameful that our society has created such a false record of what happened.

 

[c1ferrari]

Terrific and incisive!
Thanks for posting the link.