Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t
Tom Phillips, "Truth: A Brief History of Total Bullsh*t"
English | ISBN: 1472263200 | 2020 | 304 pages | PDF | 7 MB
English | ISBN: 1472263200 | 2020 | 304 pages | PDF | 7 MB
'TOM PHILLIPS IS A VERY CLEVER, VERY FUNNY MAN' Greg Jenner
This is a book about TRUTH - and all the ingenious ways, throughout history, that we've managed to avoid it.
We live in a 'post-truth' age, we're told. The US has a president who openly lies on a daily basis (or who doesn't even know what's true, and doesn't care). The internet has turned our everyday lives into a misinformation battleground. People don't trust experts any more.
But was there ever really a golden age of truth-telling? As the editor of the UK's leading independent fact-checker, Tom Phillips deals with complete bollocks every day. Here, he tells the story of how we humans have spent history lying to each other - and ourselves - and asks an important question: how can humanity move towards a truthier future?
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