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Denialism: Media in the Age of Disinformation

Panel discussion presented by the MIT Museum and the Cambridge Science Festival

"People who care about science, care about rationality, who want to raise the level of science literacy and education — we’ve got to stop ignoring the fundamental reality of who we are, how we think and gather information. We’ve got to give up on the Enlightenment idea ... that truth triumphs." — Chris Mooney
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