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What would you have to believe in order to dress up as a shaman, paint your face, and storm the U.S. Capitol? What could possibly lead somebody to claim that it upholds white supremacy to encourage hard work, self-reliance, rational thinking, punctuality, and politeness?   Such behaviors would have been unimaginable only a few years ago. And yet here we are, witnessing millions of people across the political spectrum displaying these clear indications of an epistemically poisoned mind. Both red America and blue America are retreating into their own information bubbles, seceding from a common reality. Both consume far too much misinformation and disinformation, developing worldviews that can sometimes be unintelligible to others.    This book explores these disturbing developments and what they mean for our society and implores us all to recover a shared sense of what is true.

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Author:   Lawrence M. Eppard ,  Jacob L. Mackey ,  Lee Jussim
Publisher:   Mason Publishing
Imprint:   Mason Publishing
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.30cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.730kg
ISBN:  

9781942695424

ISBN 10:   194269542
Pages:   442
Publication Date:   31 July 2024
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

OVERVIEW Chapter 1: Golden Age of Information  Chapter 2: Epistemic Crisis  Chapter 3: Ideological Silos & Epistemic Secession  PART I: DEFENDING TRUTH Chapter 4: The Constitution of Knowledge  Chapter 5: Why Should We Trust Science?  Chapter 6: Understanding Science  Chapter 7: How Science Works  Chapter 8: A Skeptical Manifesto  Chapter 9: Common Tactics of Science Denialism  Chapter 10: There is Plenty of Trustworthy Journalism  Chapter 11: Identifying Reliable News Sources  Chapter 12: How NewsGuard Works  Chapter 13: How the Media Bias Chart is Created  Chapter 14: The Harper’s Letter  PART II: PROBLEMS IN RIGHT-WING SILOS Chapter 15: Deceit and the Danger to Democracy  Chapter 16: A Fire Hose of Dishonesty  Chapter 17: Fox’s Pander-for-Profit Business Model  Chapter 18: Please Lie to Me, Tucker Carlson  Chapter 19: How We Know Recent Elections Were Not Stolen  Chapter 20: Truth and Consequences  Chapter 21: The “Great Replacement” and the “Big Lie”  Chapter 22: The “Ground Zero Mosque” Presaged Today’s GOP  Chapter 23: Anti-Immigrant Lies  Chapter 24: QAnon and the Satanic Panics of Yesteryear  Chapter 25: How Industry Undermines Public Health  Chapter 26: I Was an Exxon-funded Climate Scientist  Chapter 27: The Alt-Right and Moral Righteousness  PART III: PROBLEMS IN LEFT-WING SILOS Chapter 28: Virtuous Lies  Chapter 29: Universities Must Choose One Telos  Chapter 30: Defining “Wokeness”  Chapter 31: Ideology and the Social Sciences  Chapter 32: Attacks on Reality from the Left  Chapter 33: Bad Behavioral Science Exposed  Chapter 34: The Questionable Science of Microaggressions  Chapter 35: Problems with the IAT  Chapter 36: The Gender Identity Debate  Chapter 37: The Alt-Left and Moral Righteousness  PART IV: I DON’T KNOW—THEREFORE, ALIENS Chapter 38: Common Traits of Conspiracy Thinkers  Chapter 39: Flat Earthers and Disinformation  Chapter 40: QAnon, Descartes, and Brains in Vats  Chapter 41: Anatomy of a Viral Conspiracy Theory  Chapter 42: Fighting Conspiracy Theories with Evidence  PART V: PARTING THOUGHTS Chapter 43: In Defense of Merit in Science  Chapter 44: The Importance of Facts and Expertise  Chapter 45: What Caused the Alt-Left and Alt-Right?  Chapter 46: Disinformation, Democracy, and the Rule of Law  Chapter 47: Strengthening Information Ecosystems  Chapter 48: We Need a Shared Reality  Chapter 49: The Epistemological Conditions of a Liberal Democratic Republic  Chapter 50: Searching for Answers 

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Lawrence M. Eppard is Associate Professor of Sociology at Shippensburg University. He is author of Rugged Individualism and the Misunderstanding of American Inequality. Jacob L. Mackey is Associate Professor of Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture at Occidental College and author of Belief and Cult: Rethinking Roman Religion.  Lee Jussim is Professor of Social Psychology at Rutgers University and author of Social Perception and Social Reality: Why Accuracy Dominates Bias and Self-Fulfilling Prophecy.

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