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Mass shootings: why do authorities keep missing the warning signs? While almost all the public passion in the wake of the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, has centered on guns and the proliferation of military-style assault weapons, experts and policy analysts in law enforcement have been haunted by a different but equally troubling question: why do we keep making the same mistakes?

Mass shootings: why do authorities keep missing the warning signs?

The missed warnings were particularly egregious in the case of Nikolas Cruz, the disaffected former student who returned to Parkland’s Marjorie Stoneman Douglas high school on Valentine’s Day and gunned down 17 students and teachers. The local sheriff’s office was first warned two years ago that Cruz was thinking of shooting up the school, and the FBI twice received specific warnings that it failed to follow up or pass on. Het is lulkoek dat iedereen zijn eigen waarheid heeft, zegt deze filosofe. Truth? It’s not just about the facts – TheTLS. How false news can spread - Noah Tavlin. The rise of 'fake news', manipulation and 'alternative facts' - BBC Newsnight. Relativism - Wikipedia. Forms of relativism[edit] Anthropological versus philosophical relativism[edit] Anthropological relativism refers to a methodological stance, in which the researcher suspends (or brackets) his or her own cultural biases while attempting to understand beliefs and behaviors in their local contexts.

Relativism - Wikipedia

This has become known as methodological relativism, and concerns itself specifically with avoiding ethnocentrism or the application of one's own cultural standards to the assessment of other cultures.[5] This is also the basis of the so-called "emic" and "etic" distinction, in which: Epistemology: Introduction to Theory of Knowledge. Blog Posts - www.paulgrace.org. Fake news test. Responding to “Fake News” in the Post-Truth Era. Accusations that have no basis in reality can be surprisingly damaging.

Responding to “Fake News” in the Post-Truth Era

But there are some ways to weaken them. There is little debate that we are entering a new era in crisis communications. The proliferation of algorithmically-driven social media platforms allows erroneous claims and “fake news” reports to propagate with unprecedented speed. This is being made all the more worrying by Donald Trump’s White House, which not only lends credence to questionable information to further its narrative but is, in many cases, an instigator of fake news. Not long after Trump became president, his counsellor Kellyanne Conway introduced the phrase “alternative facts” when defending inflated claims about attendance numbers at his inauguration by White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer.

Trump’s recent assertion that Sweden was having “problems like they never thought possible” because “they took in large numbers” of refugees went viral and was largely disputed. Correcting fake news Ways to respond. We hebben geen idee hoe de wereld om ons heen er écht uitziet, zegt deze hoogleraar. Your Mind Is So Powerful It Creates Your Reality: What Isaac Lidsky Learned by Going Blind at Age 25. This Article Won’t Change Your Mind - The Atlantic. “I remember looking at her and thinking, ‘She’s totally lying.’

This Article Won’t Change Your Mind - The Atlantic

At the same time, I remember something in my mind saying, ‘And that doesn’t matter.’” For Daniel Shaw, believing the words of the guru he had spent years devoted to wasn’t blind faith exactly. It was something he chose. “I remember actually consciously making that choice.” There are facts, and there are beliefs, and there are things you want so badly to believe that they become as facts to you. Listen to the audio version of this article:Feature stories, read aloud: download the Audm app for your iPhone. How To Fine-Tune Your Bullshit Detector. Heard of the B.S.

How To Fine-Tune Your Bullshit Detector

Detector? One of a number of browser plug-ins introduced in recent months for the purpose of identifying fake news, it flashes a warning sign whenever the user is about to click on a site deemed "questionable. " It’s certainly a timely product. From this basement came a piece of fake news about who had desecrated a church in Sweden. He knows getting out of bed before dawn is a bad habit and one he wants to give up.

From this basement came a piece of fake news about who had desecrated a church in Sweden

As ever though he is already awake. As the sunrise begins to reflect in the shared pool of The Brittany, the Florida residential complex he lives in, former computer repair man Michael grabs his support frame and goes to the living room. He pours some coffee and begins going through his news feed. He doesn’t trust CNN, nor CBS or NBC any more. On Facebook though he can fill up on his favourite sources. The article concerns a church on the other side of the Atlantic. A Brief History of Facts. The concept of ‘the fact’ first appears in Renaissance Latin, but the word only entered common usage in the 1660s.

A Brief History of Facts

The Royal Society, founded in November 1660, was dedicated to experimental knowledge and declared that it would concern itself with ‘facts not explanations’. ‘Facts’ became part of a modern vocabulary for discussing knowledge – also including theories, hypotheses, evidence and experiments – which emerged in the 17th century. All these words existed before, but with different meanings: ‘experiment’, for example, simply meant ‘experience’. Alongside this new conception of facts, a philosophical discussion developed about what they actually were. David Hume (1711-76) was the first ‘philosopher of the fact’. Trump Attacks Media Over Terrorism Coverage. What we talk about when we talk about Donald Trump and ‘gaslighting’ Harry Frankfurt 'On Bullshit' Fake News. Symbolism allegory of the cave. Overvaluing confidence, we’ve forgotten the power of humility. Detail from Interior with Young Man Reading by Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1898.

Overvaluing confidence, we’ve forgotten the power of humility

Courtesy Wikimedia ‘If I only had a little humility, I’d be perfect,’ the media mogul Ted Turner supposedly said sometime in the 1990s, in a moment of narcissistic exuberance. While Turner has been much humbler since, today’s breed of tech entrepreneurs often display a similar arrogance. Why be humble? After all, Aristotle said: ‘All men by nature desire to know.’ The internet and digital media have created the impression of limitless knowledge at our fingertips. Barack Obama on fake news: 'We have problems' if we can't tell the difference. President Barack Obama has spoken out about fake news on Facebook and other media platforms, suggesting that it helped undermine the US political process.

Barack Obama on fake news: 'We have problems' if we can't tell the difference

“If we are not serious about facts and what’s true and what’s not, if we can’t discriminate between serious arguments and propaganda, then we have problems,” he said during a press conference in Germany. Since the surprise election of Donald Trump as president-elect, Facebook has battled accusations that it has failed to stem the flow of misinformation on its network and that its business model leads to users becoming divided into polarized political echo chambers. Can You Tell Fake News From Real? Study Finds Students Have 'Dismaying' Inability. Stanford researchers assessed students from middle school to college and found they struggled to distinguish ads from articles, neutral sources from biased ones and fake accounts from real ones.

Can You Tell Fake News From Real? Study Finds Students Have 'Dismaying' Inability

Gary Waters/Ikon Images/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Gary Waters/Ikon Images/Getty Images Stanford researchers assessed students from middle school to college and found they struggled to distinguish ads from articles, neutral sources from biased ones and fake accounts from real ones. If the children are the future, the future might be very ill-informed.

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