2/25/13 - Do We Live in a Post-Truth Era?; Laura Ingalls' Sister May Not Have Lost Eyesight To Scarlet Fever

Today's Articles:

Reason
February 1, 2013
"Do We Live in a Post-Truth Era?"

"Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts," the late Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-N.Y.) famously quipped. But when it comes to social and environmental problems nowadays, nearly everyone thinks he is entitled to his own facts, and an army of experts is on hand to manufacture and promote the carefully curated truths they require. "

National Public Radio
February 7, 2013
"Laura Ingalls' Sister May Not Have Lost Eyesight To Scarlet Fever"

"Audie Cornish talks with University of Michigan pediatrician Beth Tarini, who writes in the latest issue of the journal Pediatrics that Mary Ingalls, sister of author Laura Ingalls Wilder, likely did not go blind as a result of scarlet fever. Tarini talks about what led her to research Ingalls' illness, and how she learned more about what might have actually caused her blindness."

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