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The Attack on Truth - The Chronicle Review - The Chronicle of Higher Education

The strategy of willful ignorance is not to fight theory with theory and statistic with statistic. It is instead to say, "I refuse to believe this," and then filibuster in the court of public opinion. It is not crackpot theories that are doing us in. It is the spread of the tactics of those who disrespect truth.

...The real enemy is not ignorance, doubt, or even disbelief. It is false knowledge. When we profess to...