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Yes, There Is a Cure for Bullshit

The patron saint of calling BS, Harry Frankfurt, died watching his philosophy become more urgent than ever. The post Yes, There Is a Cure for Bullshit appeared first on Nautilus.

ullshit’s no laughing matter. Climate denialism bullshit, for example, is . Misinformation about SARS-CoV-2 clearly . In fact, the biologist Carl Bergstrom, while watching the pandemic unfold, argued that should be a top scientific priority. In 2020, Bergstrom coauthored a book called . In their , he and his coauthor paid respect to the philosopher Harry Frankfurt, who at the age of 94. Frankfurt, they noted, “recognized that

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