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Finding Truth: Measles, Misinformation, and a Legitimate Question Underneath It
Before the coffee gets cold, let's separate a real falsehood from a real question. A Pennsylvania measles outbreak, a debunked claim about fetal tissue, and a legitimate HHS policy review are all happening in the same headline this week, and they deserve very different verdicts.
cletetaylor67
Aug 306 min read


Finding Truth: What Finland's Housing First Strategy Actually Teaches Us
Before the coffee gets cold, let's look past the viral graphic. Finland's Housing First strategy really works, but the numbers getting shared online round up the evidence, and both political extremes flatten the story to fit their own narrative. This week's Finding Truth is about patience, nuance, and the discipline of reading past the headline.
cletetaylor67
Aug 217 min read


Finding Truth: When "Unreliable" Isn't the Whole Story
Before the coffee gets cold, let's separate the media's real failures from the manufactured distrust aimed at it. This week's Finding Truth compares editorial accountability to the accountability influencers never had — and asks why some of today's most checkable claims still go unchallenged.
cletetaylor67
Aug 169 min read


Finding Truth: Coffee, Checkboxes, and the Polls That Try to Herd Us
Polls and surveys can reveal what people believe, but they can also be designed to shape what people believe. In this Finding Truth coffee conversation, Cletus Taylor explains how loaded questions, selective sampling, answer scales, timing, and headline framing can turn public opinion into packaged persuasion—and how A Student of Truth can spot the difference.
cletetaylor67
Aug 110 min read


Finding Truth: How Raw Intelligence Gets Misunderstood, And Why Today’s Headlines Prove It
Intelligence is not the same as evidence. This Finding Truth coffee chat looks at Gulf of Tonkin, Iraq WMD, and today’s headlines to ask how citizens can take threats seriously without rushing uncertainty into certainty.
cletetaylor67
Jul 108 min read


Finding Truth: Patriotism vs. Nationalism - Loving America Enough to Tell the Truth
What does it mean to love America well? This Fourth of July reflection explores the difference between patriotism and nationalism, and why truth, humility, and civic responsibility matter more than ever.
cletetaylor67
Jul 25 min read
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