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 process argument: what does a system do when it gets things wrong? Science The replication crisis is real. It is also science working as designed. Including Wikipedia. Democracy Democratic systems fail constantly and visibly. That is what distinguishes them from the alternatives. Those mechanisms are worth protecting. Freedom of Speech Isn't moderating any of this just censorship? The most important objection to take seriously — expression versus amplification, persuasion versus manipulation, and how two legal traditions draw the line.