{"id":10397,"date":"2018-07-20T14:08:57","date_gmt":"2018-07-20T13:08:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=10397"},"modified":"2020-06-09T09:58:10","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T09:58:10","slug":"on-bullshit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2018\/07\/on-bullshit\/","title":{"rendered":"On Bullshit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The famous book &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/On_Bullshit\">On Bullshit<\/a>&#8221; of the <a href=\"https:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/On_Bullshit\">American philosopher Harry Frankfurt<\/a> has now been extended. Frankfurt originally described the relationship of spoken words and truth as being completely independent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/d41586-018-05709-6\">As I learned<\/a>\u00a0now, Jim Holt&#8217;s &#8220;When Einstein Walked with G\u00f6del&#8221; now updated the &#8220;On Bullshit&#8221; chapter on the\u00a0administration of president George W. Bush with a depressing reference to Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">9\/6\/20<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The ultimate reference, however, will be coming August 4th, 2020: Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World, by Carl Bergstrom and Jevin West.<\/p>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 28.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The famous book &#8220;On Bullshit&#8221; of the American philosopher Harry Frankfurt has now been extended. Frankfurt originally described the relationship of spoken words and truth as being completely independent. As I learned\u00a0now, Jim Holt&#8217;s &#8220;When Einstein Walked with G\u00f6del&#8221; now updated the &#8220;On Bullshit&#8221; chapter on the\u00a0administration of president George W. Bush with a depressing &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2018\/07\/on-bullshit\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">On Bullshit<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10397","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10397"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10397\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16768,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10397\/revisions\/16768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}