{"id":22815,"date":"2023-10-27T06:42:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T04:42:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/?p=22815"},"modified":"2023-10-27T06:42:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T04:42:15","slug":"the-information-landscape-is-pitted-with-lies-tall-tales-myths-pseudoscience-half-truths-and-plain-old-inaccuracies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2023\/10\/the-information-landscape-is-pitted-with-lies-tall-tales-myths-pseudoscience-half-truths-and-plain-old-inaccuracies\/","title":{"rendered":"The information landscape is pitted with lies, tall tales, myths, pseudoscience, half-truths, and plain old inaccuracies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joanna Thompson summarizes it at (<a href=\"https:\/\/undark.org\/2023\/10\/26\/opinion-misinformation-moral-panic\/?utm_source=Live+Audience&#038;utm_campaign=0b2c8e67d2-briefing-dy-20231026&#038;utm_medium=email&#038;utm_term=0_b27a691814-0b2c8e67d2-50801804\">Undark<\/a>)<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s worth noting that misinformation \u2014 by any definition \u2014 has been around for a long time. Ever since the first humans developed language, we\u2019ve been navigating an information landscape pitted with lies, tall tales, myths, pseudoscience, half-truths, and plain old inaccuracies. Medieval European bestiaries, for instance, described creatures like bears and weasels alongside unicorns and manticores. Anti-vaccine groups have been around for over 200 years, well before the internet. And in the age of yellow journalism around the turn of the 20th century, many reporters made up stories out of whole cloth.<br \/>\n\u201cI don\u2019t like this whole talk of \u2018we\u2019re living in a post-truth world,\u2019 as if we ever lived in a truth world,\u201d said Catarina Dutilh Novaes<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class=\"bottom-note\">\n  <span class=\"mod1\">CC-BY-NC Science Surf , accessed 24.04.2026<\/span>\n <\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joanna Thompson summarizes it at (Undark) It\u2019s worth noting that misinformation \u2014 by any definition \u2014 has been around for a long time. Ever since the first humans developed language, we\u2019ve been navigating an information landscape pitted with lies, tall tales, myths, pseudoscience, half-truths, and plain old inaccuracies. Medieval European bestiaries, for instance, described creatures &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/sciencesurf\/2023\/10\/the-information-landscape-is-pitted-with-lies-tall-tales-myths-pseudoscience-half-truths-and-plain-old-inaccuracies\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The information landscape is pitted with lies, tall tales, myths, pseudoscience, half-truths, and plain old inaccuracies<\/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":[1543],"class_list":["post-22815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy-of-science","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22815","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=22815"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22815\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22816,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22815\/revisions\/22816"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wjst.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}