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Welcome to Keith's night. 
Don't tread on anyone. 

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And the libertarian Institute 
here is a excerpt from 

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knowledge, reality and value. 
A mostly Common Sense guide to 

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Philosophy by dr. 
Michael humor, a professor of 

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philosophy at the University of 
Colorado, credulity. 

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Humans are born credulous. 
We instinctively believe what 

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people tell us, even with no, 
cooperation. 

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We are especially credulous 
about statistics or other 

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information that, Ones like 
objective facts. 

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Unfortunately, we are not so 
scrupulous when it comes to 

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accurately and non misleadingly 
reporting facts. 

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There is an enormous amount of 
disinformation in the world 

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particularly about politics and 
other matters of public 

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interest. 
If the public is interested in 

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it, there is bullshit about it. 
I have noticed that this 

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bullshit tends to fall into 
three main categories. 

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First ideological propaganda, if
you Learn about an issue from a 

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partisan source. 
For instance. 

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You're worried about gun control
on a gun control. 

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Advocacy website or you hear the
day's news from a conservative 

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radio show, you will get pretty 
much 100% propaganda. 

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Facts will be exaggerated 
cherry-picked deceptively 

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phrased or otherwise misleading.
Normally, you will have no way 

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of guessing the specific way in 
which the information is 

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deceptive. 
Making the information 

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essentially worthless for 
drawing inferences. 

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Second sensationalism mainstream
news sources, make money by 

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getting as many people as 
possible to watch their shows, 

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read their articles and so on to
do that. 

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They try to make everything 
sound as scary, exciting 

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outrageous, or otherwise 
dramatic, as possible, third 

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laziness. 
Most people who write for public

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consumption are lazy and lack 
expertise about the things they 

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write about. 
If a story has some technical 

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aspect example, science news. 
Those journalists probably won't

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understand it and they may get 
basic facts backwards. 

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Also, they often just talked to 
one or a few sources and print 

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whatever those sources. 
Say, even if the sources have 

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obvious biases, finally, a quote
by Michael. 

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Malice. 
The battle is won when the 

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average American regards a 
corporate journalist, exactly as

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they regard. 
A tobacco executive. 

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Please see the description below
for links to what Michael humors

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book, knowledge reality and You 
a mostly Common Sense, guide to 

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philosophy. 
Thank you for watching the 

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libertarian Institute.