~ FWANOEIT-TITSWE ~ False Words Are Not Only Evil In Themselves – They Infect The Soul With Evil ~ Plato ~ Phaedo (On The Soul) ~ 360 BCE

~ BCABMCTTTAV? ~ But Can Anyone Be Made Competent To Teach Through A Vision? ~ ? ~ Clemintine Homilies ~ 411

~ P-MNBP-W-N ~ Plurality – Must Never Be Posited – Without – Necessity ~ William of Occam ~ Sentences Of Peter Lombard ~ 1495

~ WE-IIITKAC ~ Without Experience – It Is Impossible To Know Anything Completely ~ Roger Bacon ~ Opus Majus ~ 1267

~ J-DOP-P ~ Jesters – Do Oft Prove – Prophets ~ William Shakespeare ~ King Lear ~ 1605

~ SM ~ Scientific Method ~ Francis Bacon ~ Novum Organum ~ 1620

~ PRAE ~ Proper Rejections And Exclusions ~ Francis Bacon ~ Noavum Organum ~ 1620

~ T-DAD-O-SAA-MAN-B-PRAE-AT-AASNON-CTACOTAI ~ The – Discovery And Demonstration – Of – Sciences And Arts – Must Analyse Nature – By – Proper Rejections And Exclusions – And Then – After A Sufficient Number Of Negatives – Come To A Conclusion On The Affirmative Instances ~ Francis Bacon ~ Noavum Organum ~ 1620

~ EMNBMBN ~ Entities Must Not Be Multiplied Beyond Necessity ~ John Punch ~ Commentary On John Duns Scotus’s Opus Oxoniense ~ 1639

~ F-F-A-T-CLAI-TL-TJIO-A-TTHHIE ~ Falsehood – Flies – And – Truth – Comes Limping After It – Too Late – The Jest Is Over – And – The Tale Hath Had Its Effect ~ Jonathan Swift ~ The Art Of Political Lying ~ 1710

~ AGPOTMTVTWAFW-PSFTM-BTIATPR ~ A Very Great Part Of The Mischiefs That Vex The World Arise From Words – People Soon Forget The Meaning – But – The Impression And The Passion Remain ~ Edmund Burke ~ Letter To Richard Burke ~ 1793

~ WTH-BB-TWEI-BHB ~ Where They Have – Burned Books – They Will End In – Burning Human Beings ~ Heinrich Heine ~ Almansor ~ 1823

~ SD-TNTATW-HSFA ~ Some Delusions – Though Notorious To All The World – Have Subsisted For Ages ~ Charles Mackay ~ Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds ~ 1841

~ TLOTM-A-TDOTT ~ The Love Of The Marvellous – And – The Disbelief Of The True ~ Charles Mackay ~ Extraordinary Popular Delusions And The Madness Of Crowds ~ 1841

~ TPOA-S-IT-F ~ The Purpose Of Any – Science – Is The – Forecasting ~ August Comte ~ The Course Of Positive Philosophy ~ 1830–1842

~ HTIMB-IIIN-F-F-A-F-D-IWBHAA-DD-NA-LT ~ However True It May Be – If It Is Not – Fully – Frequently – And – Fearlessly – Discussed – It Will Be Held As A – Dead Dogma – Not A – Living Truth ~ John Stuart Mill ~ On Liberty ~ 1859

~ FF ~ False Facts ~ Charles Darwin ~ The Decent Of Man (And Selection In Relation To Sex) ~ 1871

~ IHB-IIBTKN-T-TKWAS ~ I Honestly Beleave – It Iz Better Tew Know Nothing –Than – Two Know What Ain’t So ~ Josh Billings ~ Everybody’s Friend ~ 1874

~ PNOHYB-TE-AW-T-I ~ Perhaps No One Has Yet Been – Truthful Enough – About What – Truthfulness – Is ~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~ Beyond Good And Evil ~ 1886

~ TVOTMBECIQ ~ The Value Of Truth Must Be Experimentally Called Into Question ~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~ The Genealogy Of Morals ~ 1887

~ WH-A-LWPO-TT ~ We Have – Art – Lest We Perish Of – The Truth ~ Friedrich Nietzsche ~ The Will To Power ~ 1883-1888

~ WPO-WWP-CTO-S-FTOBU-APACOO0OM ~ Whilst Part Of – What We Perceive – Comes Through Our – Senses – From The Object Before Us – Another Part Always Comes Out Of – Our Mind ~ William James ~ The Principles Of Psychology ~ 1890

~ FDNPTWOOB ~ Facts Do Not Penetrate The World Of Our Beliefs ~ Marcel Proust ~ Swann’s Way ~ 1913

~ TCBNLFACWLTMBWTDL ~ There Can Be No Liberty For A Community Which Lacks The Means By Which To Detect Lies ~ Walter Lippmann ~ Liberty And The News ~ 1920

~ FDNCTEBTAI ~ Facts Do Not Cease To Exist Because They Are Ignored ~ Aldous Huxley ~ Proper Studies ~ 1927

~ PAUB ~ Pure And Uncontaminated Bunk ~ Sinclair Lewis ~ Elmer Gantry ~ 1927

~ PR ~ Public Relations ~ Edward Bernays ~ Propaganda ~ 1928

~ IIU-T-BAP-W-TINGWFSIIT ~ It Is Undesirable – To – Believe A Proposition – When – There Is No Ground Whatever For Supposing It Is True ~ Bertrand Russell ~ Sceptical Essays ~ 1928

~ TMINTT ~ The Map Is Not The Territory ~ Alfred Korzybski ~ Science And Sanity ~ 1933

~ NIMDTAI-WIITOOYH ~ Nothing Is More Dangerous Than An Idea – When It Is The Only One You Have ~ Emile Chartier ~ Propos Sur Le Religion No. 74 ~ 1938

~ PWFTAF-A-TWFOTBTBT ~ People Wanted – Fairy Tales And Fabrications – And – They Were Fond Of The Blindness They Blundered Through ~ Vladimir Bartol ~ Alamut ~ 1938

~ YCLAL-A-ATEOI-KMAOPTYKAY ~ You Can Live A Lifetime – And – At The End Of It – Know More About Other People Than You Know About Yourself ~ Beryl Markham ~ West With The Night ~ 1942

~ I-50MP-SAFT-IDNBAWO ~ If – Forty Million People – Say A Foolish Thing – It Does Not Become A Wise One ~ William Somerset Maugham ~ A Writer’s Notebook ~ 1946

~ MH ~ Memory Hole ~ George Orwell ~ 1984 ~ 1948

~ RCT ~ Randomized Controlled Trial ~ Austin Bradford Hill ~ Streptomycin Treatment Of Pulmonary Tuberculosis ~ 1948

~ MP-DTIAWRAAT-TBTW-NMHA-A-DNPOTBDBIHESTBALA ~ Mass Propaganda – Discovered That Its Audience Was Ready At All Times – To Believe The Worst – No Matter How Absurd – And – Did Not Particularity Object To Being Deceived Because It Held Every Statement To Be A Lie Anyhow ~ Hannah Arendt ~ The Origins Of Totalitarianism ~ 1951

~ TSOPMB-OG-ATOW-FTWPWTRBTHC ~ The Student Of Politics Must Be – On Guard – Against The Old Words – For The Words Persist When The Reality Behind Them Has Changed ~ Aneurin Bevan ~ In Place Of Fear ~ 1952

~ TPOH ~ The Poverty Of Historicism ~ Karl Popper ~ The Poverty Of Historicism ~ 1957

~ LTTQF-BIIVITUTQ-ANJWFAA ~ Listen To The Question First – Because It Is Very Important To Understand The Question – And – Not Just Wait For An Answer ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti ~ Think On These Things ~ 1964

~ TSOTS-WTCCIIAWOIOM ~ The Society Of The Spectacle – Where The Commodity Contemplates Itself In A World Of Its Own Making ~ Guy Debord ~ The Society Of The Spectacle ~ 1967

~ YCS-A-T-B-ATTP-QT-YCC-O-B-L ~ You Can Sway – A – Thousand – By – Appealing To Their Prejudices – Quicker Than – You Can Convince – One – By – Logic ~ Robert Heinlein ~ If This Goes On ~ The Past Through Tomorrow ~ 1967

~ CANAP ~ Conclusions Are Not Always Pleasant ~ Helen Keller ~ Jonathan Kozol ~ The Night Is Dark And I Am Far From Home ~ 1975

~ WWHIWOIYASL? ~ What Would Happen If Every One In Your Situation Lied? – Sissela Bok ~ Lying ~ 1978

~ CH ~ Consensual Hallucinations ~ William Gibson ~ Neuromancer ~ 1984

~ WPS-WMBS-YCTI-TAATDSC-A-ITA-‘WMBR’-TMTAGTMMOOI ~ Whenever People Say – We Mustn’t Be Sentimental – You Can Take It – They Are About To Do Something Cruel – And – If They Add – We Must Be Realistic – They Mean They Are Going To Make Money Out Of It ~ Brigid Brophy ~ [Quote] ~ Spiritual Ecology ~ Jim Nollman ~ 1990

~ EC-REP ~ Extraordinary Claims – Require Extraordinary Proof ~ Carl Sagan ~ Cosmos ~ 1990

~ QF ~ Quantum Flapdoodle ~ Murray Gell-Mann ~ The Quark and the Jaguar ~ 1994

~ TEWWWDAD-ADADTO-TWHDOD-IR ~ The Ease With Which We Deny And Dissemble – And Deny And Dissemble To Ourselves – That We Have Denied Or Dissembled – Is Remarkable ~ Daniel Goleman ~ Vital Lies – Simple Truths ~ 1996

~ AK-IH-TE-PIFTU ~ Already Knowing – Is How – The Ego – Protects Itself From – The Unknown ~ Andrew Cohen ~ Embracing Heaven & Earth ~ 2000

~ AL-GIHD-I-TPFRTK ~ A Lie – Grounded In Human Desire – Is – Too Powerful For Reason To Kill ~ David Horowitz ~ The Art Of Political War And Other Radical Pursuits ~ 2000

~ TSOOEWMAATTOOATTCAOW ~ The Saturation Of Our Environment With Media And Advertising Threatens To Overwhelm Our Ability To Think Critically About Our World ~ Joseph Heath ~ The Efficient Society ~ 2001

~ TMBGIITFTNTP ~ There May Be Great Information In The Fact That Nothing Took Place ~ Nassim Taleb ~ Fooled By Randomness ~ 2001

~ TBL-DNS-SLAIINO ~ The Big Lie – Does Not Stop – So Long As It Is Not Opposed ~ John McMurtry ~ Value Wars ~ 2002

~ MOO-CM-WIB-GA-O-PC-F-QS-US-S-P ~ Many Of Our – Cherished Myths – Were Invented By – Government Agencies – Or – Private Corporations – For – Quite Specific – Usually Self-Serving – Purposes ~ Daniel Francis ~ National Dreams ~ 2002

~ ER ~ Embrace Reality ~ Sandy Hotchkiss ~ Why Is It Always About You? ~ 2003

~ I-I-TUSA-K-TDE ~ Ignorance – Is – The Undead’s Strongest Ally – Knowledge – Their Deadliest Enemy ~ Max Brooks ~ The Zombie Survival Guide ~ 2003

~ PT ~ Persuasive Technology ~ Brian Fogg ~ Persuasive Technology ~ 2003

~ I-TM-DAW-TG-TMIW ~ If – The Map – Doesn’t Agree With – The Ground – The Map Is Wrong ~ Gordon Livingston ~ Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart ~ 2004

~ TMDWH-TMLWATDII ~ The More Data We Have – The More Likely We Are To Drown In It ~ Nassim Taleb ~ Fooled By Randomness ~ 2004

~ FAOCW ~ Falsehoods Are Often Conventional Wisdom ~ Cass Sunstein ~ Infotopia ~ 2006

~ WO-IEME-TM-APOTWTAVWR ~ We Often – Invest Enormous Mental Energy – To Maintain – A Perspective On The World That’s At Variance With Reality ~ Thomas Homer-Dixon ~ The Upside Of Down ~ 2006

~ WDWFR? ~ Why Don’t We Face Reality? ~ Thomas Homer-Dixon ~ The Upside Of Down ~ 2006

~ TLAFISIUL ~ The Least Acknowledged Factor In Success Is Undoubtedly Luck ~ John Mighton ~ The End Of Ignorance ~ 2007

~ C&C ~ Charlatans And Cranks ~ Jonathan Chait ~ The Big Con ~ 2007

~ TRTR ~ The Road To Reality ~ Mark Buchanan ~ The Social Atom ~ 2007

~ DWYAMYIOWYWTB? ~ Does Who You Are Match Your Idea Of Who You Want To Be? ~ Joe Calloway ~ Becoming A Category Of One ~ 2009

~ WRDCTBOOU ~ We Really Do Come To Believe Our Own Untruths ~ Joseph Hallinan ~ Why We Make Mistakes ~ 2009

~ AL-TS-APBS-WS-POI-F ~ A Lie – That Serves – A Popular Belief System – Will Survive – Proof Of Its – Fraudulence ~ Michael Baigent ~ Racing Toward Armageddon ~ 2009

~ D-IA-V-A-VAC ~ Denialism – Is A – Virus – And – Viruses Are Contagious ~ Michael Spector ~ Denialism ~ 2009

~ TA-OC-IT-TWNIIFF-TWIIFT ~ The Answer – Of Course – Is That – They Were Not Interested In Finding Facts – They Were Interested In Fighting Them ~ Naomi Oreskes + Erik Conway ~ Merchants Of Doubt ~ 2010

~ NOS ~ Nonsense On Stilts ~ Massimo Pigliucci ~ Nonsense On Stilts ~ 2010

~ IWWTKWTWRLL-WHTUHFSASOVOI ~ If We Want To Know What The World Really Looks Like – We Have To Understand How Filters Shape And Skew Our View Of It ~ Li Pariser ~ The Filter Bubble ~ 2011

~ DIAS-R-OYMTFD-YTTCTI:YW-D-DTD-DT-ASO ~ Denial Is Also Self-Reinforcing – Once You Make The First Denial – You Tend To Commit To It: You Will – Deny – Deny The Denial – Deny That – And So On ~ Robert Trivers ~ The Folly Of Fools ~ 2011

~ SPGPAVGDOM-T-DBS ~ Some People Get Paid A Very Great Deal Of Money – To – Deny Basic Science ~ John Grant ~ Denying Science ~ 2011

~ OOTDB-S-A-P-IS-SATRIDL ~ One Of The Differences Between – Science – And – Pseudoscience – Is That – Science Accepts The Results It Doesn’t Like ~ John Grant ~ Denying Science ~ 2011

~ NT-SA-TF ~ Nice Theory – Shame About – The Facts ~ Fred Pearce ~ The Land Grabbers ~ 2012

~ N-W-H ~ Nonsense-With-Headlines ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb ~ Antifragile ~ 2012

~ TFLATEOTU ~ The Free Lunch At The End Of The Universe ~ Lawrence Krauss ~ A Universe From Nothing ~ 2012

~ WDN-TT-WH-TL ~ We Don’t Need – The Truth – We Have – The Legend ~ Thomas King ~ The Inconvenient Indian ~ 2012

~ OBABTETWWCTHTBAVOTAU ~ Our Brains Are Built To Ensure That We Will Come To Hold The Beliefs And Values Of Those Around Us ~ Matthew Lieberman ~ Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired To Connect ~ 2013

~ OR ~ Occupy Reality ~ Douglas Rushkoff ~ Present Shock ~ 2013

~ PR ~ Presentist Reality ~ Douglas Rushkoff ~ Present Shock ~ 2013

~ F-NTBSREBIIS-P ~ Finance – Needs To Be Strictly Regulated Exactly Because It Is So – Powerful ~ Ha-Joon Chang ~ Economics – The User’s Guide ~ 2014

~ RIAPOMH ~ Reality Is A Plague On Many Houses ~ Charles Calomiris + Stephen Haber ~ Fragile By Design ~ 2014

~ YNKYAIPUYTTD ~ You Never Know You Are In Prison Unless You Try The Door ~ Joe Bageant ~ Deer Hunting With Jesus ~ 2015

~ TTIOAAU-ASATPWTI ~ The Truth Is Often Awkward And Unwelcome – And – So Are The People Who Tell It ~ Kevin Ashton ~ How To Fly A Horse ~ 2015

~ SIF ~ Supposedly Irrelevant Factors ~ Richard Thaler ~ Misbehaving ~ 2015

~ TGSD-W-TDOI ~ The Greatest Scientific Discovery – Was – The Discovery Of Ignorance ~ Yuval Noah Harari ~ Homo Deus ~ 2015

~ PBND ~ Platitudes But No Data ~ Robert Frank ~ Success And Luck ~ 2016

~ M-W ~ Math-Washed ~ Virginia Eubanks ~ Automating Inequality ~ 2017

~ TOKEMTBBBI ~ They Only Knew Enough Math To Be Blinded By It ~ Nassim Taleb ~ The Black Swan ~ 2017

~ AEIOTINAEIE ~ An Expert In One Thing Is Not An Expert In Everything ~ Guy Harrison ~ Think Before You Like ~ 2017

~ IPDKHITA ~ Ignorant People Don’t Know How Ignorant They Are ~ Steven Sloman + Philip Fernbach ~ The Knowledge Illusion ~ 2017

~ MN-TOOTA-SBNTNP ~ Magic Numbers – Taken Out Of Thin Air – Supported By Neither Theory Nor Practice ~ Mariana Mazzucato ~ The Value Of Everything ~ 2018

~ WEBOESWE ~ We’re Experts Because Other Experts Say We’re Experts ~ Thomas Frank ~ Rendezvous With Oblivion ~ 2018

~ IA-P-TW-IIHTKWTTSAWIOAP ~ In A – Post-Truth World – It Is Hard To Know What To Take Seriously And What Is Only A Pose ~ Gary Lachman ~ Dark Star Rising ~ 2018

~ P-B-F-U-L ~ Pronouncements – By – Fools – Using – Labels ~ Nassim Taleb ~ Skin In The Game ~ 2018

~ WE ~ Weaponized Ignorance ~ Mary Gray + Siddharth Suri ~ Ghost Work ~ 2019

~ STATWYBITON ~ Some Things Are True Whether You Believe In Them Or Not ~ Rutger Bregman ~ Humankind ~ 2019

~ A-WOLL-S-R-R-R-LNOPD ~ Also – When Our Leaders Lie – Sometimes – Really – Really – Really – Large Numbers Of People Die ~ Tom Phillips ~ Truth ~ 2020

~ COF ~ Cascades Of Falsehood ~ Anne Applebaum ~ Twilight Of Democracy ~ 2020

~ TS ~ Trained Stupid ~ A ~ Sermon On The Couch ~ 2021