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How do you fact-check a deep story?
Reasonable People #48: The dynamics of 'participatory disinformation' campaigns show the limits of trying to correct individual rumours
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Tom Stafford
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A new study puts another nail in the coffin of "fake news"
Reasonable People #47: Mainstream stories have the lion's share of the impact on people's attitudes to the covid vaccine, shows analysis of massive…
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Tom Stafford
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Fragments of reason
Reasonable People #46 some new things which caught my eye
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Tom Stafford
September 2023
August 2023
Radiation-laced chapatis as a test case for defining Conspiracy Theories
Reasonable People #45: When is news obviously fake? And can Conspiracy Theories be defined, or is the term just one of abuse?
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Tom Stafford
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Conspiracy Theories are propaganda for deep beliefs
Reasonable People #44: Quassim Cassam's account of Conspiracy Theories, and what it means for how to respond to them.
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Tom Stafford
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July 2023
Anyone for metascience?
Reasonable People #43: metascience, aka. metaresearch aka research on research, is taking up a lot of my recent attention.
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Tom Stafford
What conspiracy theorists get right
Reasonable #42: the epistemic vices of conspiracy theorising as epistemic virtues taken to excess
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Tom Stafford
June 2023
April 2023
Innovation collaboration
Reasonable People #40 some recent metascience results on how to support innovative research
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Tom Stafford
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March 2023
On the over and under detection of agency
Reasonable People #39: Why we may overestimate chatGPT, and why smarter people may be particularly prone to this
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Tom Stafford
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The tuned stack
Reasonable People #38: an interlude about AI as an engine for understanding our intuitions
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