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I Am Once Again Begging the Left Not to Get Baited Into Conspiracy Thinking
It's all deliberate and we need to keep a cooler head
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S Peter Davis
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Civil War MAGA: Why They're Fighting
Dumber than you know, as racist as you'd expect
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S Peter Davis
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Real Time True Crime: The Unsatisfying and Often Damaging Outcomes of Internet Sleuthing
We do this every single time and it's never what we expect
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S Peter Davis
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No, They'll Never Believe in Climate Change: How Science Becomes Political
From climatology to vaccines, once science becomes Us Versus Them it's impossible to treat it objectively.
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S Peter Davis
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The Censorship Grievance Industrial Complex: Part 2 - The War on Truth
Free speech is important. The right wants you to believe education is its enemy. Don't believe their lies.
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S Peter Davis
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How to Engineer a Moral Panic For Fun and Profit
The Republicans' insane anti-Haitian terror campaign is a dangerous new low that brings to question their deeper motives
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S Peter Davis
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Context Matters: How the Far Right Weaponizes Poor Media Literacy
Propagandists rely on people missing the bigger picture to smuggle insidious ideas into the mainstream
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S Peter Davis
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The Ailing Health of the Substack Health Community
Why is it so hard to create a popular health newsletter that doesn't reject health science?
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S Peter Davis
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The Liberty to Lie: Descending Into a Post-Truth World
We don't value truth as we once did, and the implications for society are frightening.
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S Peter Davis
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Agnostic Extremism: How Neutral Questions Become Political
Even incontestable facts become controversial in the noise of the crowd
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S Peter Davis
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Skull-Measurers and Sock Puppets: The Creepy Eugenics Obsession of Elon Musk
When it comes to racism, he's bringing it back oldschool
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S Peter Davis
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The Myth of Debating Hate
Oppose censorship if you want, but don't pretend "debating Nazis" works
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S Peter Davis
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