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Culture, history and society

Culture, history and society

Why telling bigger stories is the only way to counter misinformation

22 Jan 2025 Robert P Crease

People often respond to scientific findings by invoking “stories” of dubious truth.  Robert P Crease wonders if anything can be done about it

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Sense making Humans understand the world by taking information and fitting it into pre-existing stories that might be right or might be wrong. (Courtesy: iStock/Laurence Dutton)
If aliens came to Earth and tried to work out how we earthlings make sense of our world, they’d su

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Robert P Crease is a professor in the Department of Philosophy, Stony Brook University, US and writes the monthly Critical Point column for Physics World, robertpcrease.com, e-mail robert.crease@stonybrook.edu. His latest book is The Leak: Politics, Activists, and Loss of Trust at Brookhaven National Laboratory
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