Post-truth Archives - Ocean and Coastal Futures

29 Jan 2017

Communicating science: New Realities – Guerrilla Archiving, Ct-Alt-Delete policies

Interesting times for communicating science and climate change – two new terms (to me) – Guerrilla archiving and Ctrl-Alt-Delete policies. I wonder where he got the idea of gagging environmental agencies from? How this will work in practice remains to be seen because as usual there is inconsistency, see the piece on NOAA not being […]

13 Dec 2016

We should take time and effort to correct misinformation – Phil Williamson

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Scientists should challenge online falsehoods and inaccuracies — and harness the collective power of the Internet to fight back, argues Phil Williamson With the election of Donald Trump, his appointment of advisers who are on record as dismissing scientific evidence, and the emboldening of deniers on everything from climate change to vaccinations, the amount of nonsense […]