Christmas 2016 - truth, post truth, nothing like the truth

In response to the turmoil of 2016, with political campaigns being run on, and won on, misinformation - many commentators are disparing that we’ve become a post-truth society. And what is truth anyway? Tracy Brown, director of Sense about Science, the charity set up to champion evidence in everyday life, is less pessimistic about the public's appetite for evidence. http://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6467 Anders Huitfeldt, a postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University School of Medicine, and has been trying to puzzle out “Is caviar a risk factor for being a millionaire?”

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