What is Truth?
This is the hardest page on this site to write.
We are going to argue that journalism and science, despite their failures, are more reliable than the alternatives.
Journalism What journalism's failures actually tell you about journalism. The test that matters is not whether a system makes mistakes, but whether it finds and corrects them. Science When other scientists repeated many published studies in psychology and medicine, the results often did not hold up — the replication crisis. Scientists found that out themselves and changed how they work. Wikipedia, imperfect as it is, shows its corrections too. Democracy Democratic systems fail constantly and visibly. Elections, independent courts and a free press let those failures be seen and put right from within. That is what distinguishes democracies from the alternatives, and why they are worth protecting. Freedom of Speech Isn't moderating any of this just censorship? The most important objection to take seriously — the right to speak versus a right to be amplified to millions, persuasion versus manipulation, and how American and European law draw the line in different places.
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