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	Podcast:		The Brian Lehrer Show
	Episode:		The Roots of the 'Post-Truth' Era
	Category:		News & Politics
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	Publish Date:		2018-04-10 12:09:19
	Description:		Philosopher Lee McIntyre, research fellow at the Center for Philosophy and History of Science at Boston University and an instructor in Ethics at Harvard Extension School and author of Post-Truth (The MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, 2018), argues that to push back on the "post-truth" phenomenon, seen in climate change denials, birtherism and inauguration crowd size claims, it's necessary to acknowledge its origins in post-modernism and Derrida's contention that there's no such thing as "objective truth" and gender and cultural experience, plus politics influence claims of fact. He also sees connections to industry's 1950-s "science-denying" of the links between smoking and lung disease, for example. →Excerpt from Post-Truth: "Fighting Post-Truth" (The Humanist, 2/28/2018)
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