Whither Standpoint Theory In A Post-Truth World?

NLP in a post-truth world

which permits unrestricted re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract We live in a post-truth world. It now matters more whether people think something is true than whether something really is true. This is dangerous, and technology is at least partly to blame. So, as technologists, how can we help to fix this? 1 The demise of fa...

The dangers of a post-truth world

Development goals in the post-2015 world: whither Canada?

A new set of post-2015 development goals for the world is being negotiated. Several potential goals relating to sustainable development, poverty, the economy and health have been identified. Many of them have potential public health gains, although there are inadequacies in how several of them have been defined. In participating in finalization of these goals, Canada should strengthen its commi...

Margaret McCartney: Evidence in a post-truth world.

Is the internet making us more stupid? The outcome of the US presidential election will be analysed as a caustic case study long after we’re all dead, but the internet must take at least some of the blame. We’re in a post-fact, post-truth, we’ve-had-enough-of-experts era. I remember realising that knowledge no longer meant a date with Index Medicus (young people: this was a multi-volume, paper—...

Whither "world without leprosy"?

Dr Yo Yuasa, who was the President of the International Leprosy Association for two terms, exhorted everyone to work towards a “world without leprosy “ at the International Leprosy Congress, Beijing in 1998. He defined this state as “a world without leprosy-related problems, both medical and social, emphasizing the point that it is not the disease per se but its related problems, mostly social ...