A Society Afflicted by Willful Blindness
It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so. Mark Twain Weapons of mass destruction that weren’t. Obama’s birther status that wasn’t. Implausible Brexit that did. President Hillary Clinton – not. Trump’s Russian collusion that didn’t and his facts that aren’t. Fake news is arguably the defining phrase of recent political seasons. But it is not just politics. Our opioid crisis began with the false narrative by Purdue
