Vaclav Smil On The Two Cultures And Our “Fully Post-Factual World” My emails with Smil on C.P. Snow’s 1959 essay, scientific illiteracy and innumeracy. Plus: Kotkin, Gurri, and Teixeira on the elites
Vaclav Smil On The Two Cultures And Our “Fully Post-Factual World” My emails with Smil on C.P. Snow’s 1959 essay, scientific illiteracy and innumeracy. Plus: Kotkin, Gurri, and Teixeira on the elites
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I emailed Smil back with these questions: To what do you attribute this post-factualism? Is it scientific illiteracy and innumeracy? Tribalism? Purposeful ignorance? I asked about Snow’s 1959 lecture.
Vaclav Smil On The Two Cultures And Our “Fully Post-Factual World” My emails with Smil on C.P. Snow’s 1959 essay, scientific illiteracy and innumeracy. Plus: Kotkin, Gurri, and Teixeira on the elites
Vaclav Smil On The Two Cultures And Our…
Vaclav Smil On The Two Cultures And Our “Fully Post-Factual World” My emails with Smil on C.P. Snow’s 1959 essay, scientific illiteracy and innumeracy. Plus: Kotkin, Gurri, and Teixeira on the elites
I emailed Smil back with these questions: To what do you attribute this post-factualism? Is it scientific illiteracy and innumeracy? Tribalism? Purposeful ignorance? I asked about Snow’s 1959 lecture.