Demagoguery Beats Data - Don't Be Confused By the Facts

News Type: Opinion — Seeded on Tue Apr 4, 2006 9:46 AM EDT

Article Source: Town Hall

politics, education, facts, thomas-sowell, demagoguery

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Even institutions that are set up to pass on facts -- the media, schools, academia -- too often treat facts as expendable and use their strategic positions to filter out facts which go against their own preconceptions.

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merrydeath

This article raises a fairly interesting issue -- one that we've certainly run into on the vine. I absolutely agree that a great deal of people (myself include) tend to embrace truthiness as opposed to truth. However, I can't help but note, that the author of this article did not supply a single fact to back up his assertions either. Just because he's challenging the culture of truthiness does not exempt him from scholarly integrity.

1. I have not noticed that crimes committed by blacks, homosexuals, and the homeless are ignored. 2. What percentage of people in low wage jobs don't support a family? 3. Gun control -- statistics?
4. slavery -- most intelligent conversation about slavery that I've had acknowledges that slavery has occurred in a variety of manifestations throughout history (and in contemporary societies) but that the slave trade between Africa and the United States was unique and worthy of it's own conversation.

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#1 - Tue Apr 4, 2006 11:32 AM EDT

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miasma

And it is a little curious that both of those books on "white" slavery went out of print so fast.

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#2 - Tue Apr 4, 2006 12:15 PM EDT

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I SPY

Leonid Brezhnev said to Reagan "I wish I could get Russian's to censor themselves the way Americans do" We The People are the cattle of the factories

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#3 - Tue Apr 4, 2006 5:30 PM EDT

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Oluseye

This explains a lot!

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#4 - Tue Apr 4, 2006 7:10 PM EDT

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