People Who Believe Disinformation Don’t Believe that Disinformation Exists–of Course!

There is something superficially appealing about the content of the meme here. We do have brains, with which we can process information.

The problem is that disinformation does exist, and we’re surrounded by it.

Science is the totality of objectively truthful statements about the world around us, according to our species’ capacity to understand them at any given point in time.  Disinformation is any deliberate attempt to obscure those truths, and our culture is swimming in it.

If you believe, for instance, that anthropogenic climate change doesn’t exist, you’re simply incorrect.  Yes, given the Internet, you can find information that might send you in that direction.  But, whether it was created by an oil company or any of a variety of crackpots, it’s just plain wrong.