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Constructive Conflict Guide > Civic Knowledge and Skills That We Can Use to Help Ourselves and Our Society More Constructively Handle Intractable Conflict > Stripping Away "Overlay" Problems That Make Conflicts Appear More Intractable Than They Really Are > Resolving Fact-Based Sources of Conflict
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Obtaining Trustworthy Information
When emotions are running high and everyone has an agenda, it can be very difficult to obtain credible information. This essay discusses the problem and how it can be addressed.
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Oversight/Review Committee
One method for determining the trustworthiness of particular fact-finding efforts is an outside review. Here, an outside panel of experts checks a study for thoroughness, completeness, and objectivity.
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Communicating Facts
Simply having access to trustworthy, credible information is not enough. It is also necessary to present the information in a way that decision makers and the general public can understand. This essay illustrates how to do that.
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Expert Trust and Trustworthiness: The Gap between Experts and the Public
Spinning of facts, together with scientists' common inability to speak or write in lay-language has greatly harmed the general public's trust in science and "expert knowledge."
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New Study: A Promising Method to Build Trust in Information and Reduce Partisan Animosity
A new method significantly reduced feelings of hostility between political party members to a level that resembles the political climate of the 1980s, when Republicans and Democrats got along.
News and Opinion
In an acrimonious time, some welcome fresh attention to Socrates and the art of civilized arguing
An eye-opening look at the genuine advantages associated with the Socratic approach to debate and collaborative truth seeking.
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What Economics (and Sociology) ought to be
This thoughtful essay reminds us of what the social sciences could learn if they would aside political advocacy and objectively study our problems.
News and Opinion
How to Destroy (What's Left of) the Mainstream Media's Credibility
A critical response to ongoing calls for the media to abandon the quest for objectivity in favor of solidarity with progressive worldviews.
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Bring Back Objective Journalism
More on the debate over whether "objectivity" is the key to trustworthiness or whether it is an obstacle to be avoided.
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Improve how science advice is provided to governments by learning from "experts in expert advice"
For a complex world in which we are utterly dependent upon expert advice to keep the system running, welcome news that there are experts specializing in how to obtain advice that is genuinely trustworthy.
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Partisan Science is Bad for Science and Society
At a time when so many people are being called upon to "trust the science," some serious thoughts on how to make science truly trustworthy.
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In Defense of Merit in Science
A article so controversial that it could only be published in the "Journal of Controversial Ideas." Their argument -- science should be evaluated according to the merits of the arguments being made.
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How Science Must Change
For a time when science is so widely distrusted, concrete suggestions about how science might re-earn the public's trust.
News and Opinion
An Existential Threat to Doing Good Science