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Post-truth: a guide for the perplexed

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  • Kathleen Higgins

    (Kathleen Higgins teaches and writes on Nietzsche, aesthetics and philosophy of emotion at the University of Texas at Austin.)

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If politicians can lie without condemnation, what are scientists to do? Kathleen Higgins offers some explanation.

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  • Kathleen Higgins, 2016. "Post-truth: a guide for the perplexed," Nature, Nature, vol. 540(7631), pages 9-9, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:540:y:2016:i:7631:d:10.1038_540009a
    DOI: 10.1038/540009a
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    1. Alan C. Logan & Susan H. Berman & Brian M. Berman & Susan L. Prescott, 2021. "Healing Anthropocene Syndrome: Planetary Health Requires Remediation of the Toxic Post-Truth Environment," Challenges, MDPI, vol. 12(1), pages 1-25, January.
    2. Leonardo Becchetti & Massimo Cermelli, 2018. "Civil economy: definition and strategies for sustainable well-living," International Review of Economics, Springer;Happiness Economics and Interpersonal Relations (HEIRS), vol. 65(3), pages 329-357, September.
    3. Whiting, Alix & Kecinski, Maik & Li, Tongzhe & r, Kent D. Messer & Parker, Julia, 2019. "The importance of selecting the right messenger: A framed field experiment on recycled water products," Ecological Economics, Elsevier, vol. 161(C), pages 1-8.
    4. Jennifer Musto & Anne E. Fehrenbacher & Heidi Hoefinger & Nicola Mai & P. G. Macioti & Calum Bennachie & Calogero Giametta & Kate D’Adamo, 2021. "Anti-Trafficking in the Time of FOSTA/SESTA: Networked Moral Gentrification and Sexual Humanitarian Creep," Social Sciences, MDPI, vol. 10(2), pages 1-18, February.
    5. Pérez-Mesa, Juan Carlos & García Barranco, Mª Carmen & Serrano-Arcos, Mª Mar, 2023. "The agri-food crisis in the post-truth age: an application to the Spanish greenhouse sector," MPRA Paper 119882, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    6. Naudé, Wim, 2023. "Destructive Digital Entrepreneurship," IZA Discussion Papers 16483, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
    7. Dorine Boumans & Klaus Gründler & Niklas Potrafke & Fabian Ruthardt, 2021. "The Global Economic Impact of Politicians: Evidence from an International Survey RCT," EconPol Working Paper 56, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich.
    8. van der Bles, Anne Marthe & van der Liden, Sander & Freeman, Alessandra L. J. & Mitchell, James & Galvao, Ana Beatriz & Spiegelhalter, David J., 2019. "Communicating uncertainty about facts, numbers, and science," EMF Research Papers 22, Economic Modelling and Forecasting Group.
    9. Dorine Boumans & Klaus Gründler & Niklas Potrafke & Fabian Ruthardt, 2022. "Political Leaders and Macroeconomic Expectations: Evidence from a Global Survey Experiment," CESifo Working Paper Series 9974, CESifo.
    10. Ya Yang & Lichao Xiu & Xuejiao Chen & Guoming Yu, 2023. "Do emotions conquer facts? A CCME model for the impact of emotional information on implicit attitudes in the post-truth era," Palgrave Communications, Palgrave Macmillan, vol. 10(1), pages 1-7, December.

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