Methods to evaluate stories
When governments operate in secrecy, trust in government goes down. Rumors circulate about what government is up to.
When governments operate in secrecy, trust in government goes down. Rumors circulate about what government is up to.
Sunstein made a proposal – to infiltrate groups distrustful and suspicious of government’s motives – with no apparent cognition that infiltration is a go-to method for totalitarian or paranoid leaders who want to nip opposition before it grows.
The war launched on September 11, 2001, was designed to inaugurate a new American century. It certainly did that, but not in the way America’s leaders expected.
When you lay an accusation that someone’s views are dangerous, you say more about yourself than you might think. You suggest some views, and people who voice them, do not deserve protection.
I believe Sunstein and other public information gatekeepers see themselves acting in service to their country, to protect the republic from actual threats and pernicious influence of conspiracy crackpots.
Can you guess the The Jeffersonian’s most viewed post, among almost five hundred articles? It is Why World Trade Center 7 …
If serial rape by America’s dad seems too serious a subject for jests, what about fears that your own American flag heralds a state that assassinates leaders and blows up buildings with people in them?
Suppose 9/11 truth became part of the contest between the two major political parties. The partisanship wouldn’t be pretty, nor …
People say they want to see a smoking gun for evidence. That means evidence so fresh, so incontrovertible and conclusive …
You should see how David Ray Griffin takes apart Cass Sunstein’s work on consipiracy theories. Griffin’s book is titled Cognitive …
That’s how a young man described the reportage out of Newtown after the massacre there. Reporters can make various kinds …