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Now when I watch TV, I won?t yell BS?I?ll yell AGNOTOLOGY!, and sound smarter, or at least less ignorant.
Whenever I hear Biden, Fauchi, Pelosi, Horiz. Harris or Schumer, I know they just pull "facts" out of their back end of a rifle stock. Now I know what to call them.
Agnotology (Excerpted from Wikipedia with bold emphasis is mine. )
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Agnotology (formerly agnatology) is the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt, particularly the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data. More generally, the term also highlights the increasingly common condition where more knowledge of a subject leaves one more uncertain than before. (The more we know, the dumber we get-PWC) David Dunning of Cornell University is another academic who studies the spread of ignorance. "Dunning warns that the internet is helping propagate ignorance ? it is a place where everyone has a chance to be their own expert, he says, which makes them prey for powerful interests wishing to deliberately spread ignorance".
There are many causes of culturally induced ignorance. These include the influence of the media, either through neglect or as a result of deliberate misrepresentation and manipulation. (What can I say?look at MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NY Times, Washington Compost?-PWC) Corporations and governmental agencies can contribute to the subject matter studied by agnotology through secrecy and suppression of information, document destruction, and myriad forms of inherent or avoidable culturo-political selectivity, inattention, and forgetfulness. (redacting)
Proctor cites as a prime example of the deliberate production of ignorance the tobacco industry's advertising campaign to manufacture doubt about the cancerous and other health effects of tobacco use. Under the banner of science, the industry produced research about everything except tobacco hazards to exploit public uncertainty. (Hmmm?maybe global warming too?-PWC)
Agnotology also focuses on how and why diverse forms of knowledge do not "come to be", or are ignored or delayed. For example, knowledge about plate tectonics was censored and delayed for at least a decade because some evidence remained classified military information related to undersea warfare
Whenever I hear Biden, Fauchi, Pelosi, Horiz. Harris or Schumer, I know they just pull "facts" out of their back end of a rifle stock. Now I know what to call them.
Agnotology (Excerpted from Wikipedia with bold emphasis is mine. )
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia:
Agnotology (formerly agnatology) is the study of culturally induced ignorance or doubt, particularly the publication of inaccurate or misleading scientific data. More generally, the term also highlights the increasingly common condition where more knowledge of a subject leaves one more uncertain than before. (The more we know, the dumber we get-PWC) David Dunning of Cornell University is another academic who studies the spread of ignorance. "Dunning warns that the internet is helping propagate ignorance ? it is a place where everyone has a chance to be their own expert, he says, which makes them prey for powerful interests wishing to deliberately spread ignorance".
There are many causes of culturally induced ignorance. These include the influence of the media, either through neglect or as a result of deliberate misrepresentation and manipulation. (What can I say?look at MSNBC, CBS, ABC, NY Times, Washington Compost?-PWC) Corporations and governmental agencies can contribute to the subject matter studied by agnotology through secrecy and suppression of information, document destruction, and myriad forms of inherent or avoidable culturo-political selectivity, inattention, and forgetfulness. (redacting)
Proctor cites as a prime example of the deliberate production of ignorance the tobacco industry's advertising campaign to manufacture doubt about the cancerous and other health effects of tobacco use. Under the banner of science, the industry produced research about everything except tobacco hazards to exploit public uncertainty. (Hmmm?maybe global warming too?-PWC)
Agnotology also focuses on how and why diverse forms of knowledge do not "come to be", or are ignored or delayed. For example, knowledge about plate tectonics was censored and delayed for at least a decade because some evidence remained classified military information related to undersea warfare
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