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Post-truth: a guide for the perplexed

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Nature News, 540 (7631): 9 (December 2016)
DOI: 10.1038/540009a

Abstract

The Oxford Dictionaries named ‘post-truth’ as their 2016 Word of the Year. It must sound alien to scientists. Science’s quest for knowledge about reality presupposes the importance of truth, both as an end in itself and as a means of resolving problems. How could truth become passé?

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