Falsehoods Fly: Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop It Memoir_Gift_Guide Midwest Book Review

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Falsehoods Fly: Why Misinformation Spreads and How to Stop It Memoir_Gift_Guide Midwest Book ReviewMisinformation is one of the twenty first centurys greatest challenges, a peril to democracy, peace, science, and public health. Yet we lack a clear understanding of what makes misinformation so potent and why it can spread so rapidly. In Falsehoods Fly, a leading cognitive scientist and philosopher offers a new framework for recognizing and countering misleading claims by exploring the ways that information worksand breaks down. Paul Thagard examines