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RE: Science and technology micro-summaries for July 16, 2019

in #rsslog5 years ago (edited)

Good point. Thanks for the feedback! It's good to avoid overgeneralizing. Although, to be fair, I think it would be fairly unusual to find a human that can't tell (for example) that a stop sign with some stickers on it is still a stop sign. The main exception that comes to mind being very young children. That's the sort of alteration that the article is referring to.

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Well, I was thinking more about misrepresentation of facts in propaganda articles. A lot of folks accept such reports without question, after long indoctrination, and little access to better information.