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Today’s Pearls Before Swine:

Truth by assertion.

Compare other alternatives to truth based on reality (discussion here): reporting of facts based on fear vs. based on reality (via evidence), and truth created from faith, assumption, or ideology vs. based on reality (via evidence). Evidence comes out poorly in these confrontations.

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