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.

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.

The first real crack for me came when I stopped reading arguments and started reading outcomes. Not hot takes, not speeches, but what actually happened to real people over long timelines. The detail that hit me hardest was painfully simple: an innocent man can be put to death by society, and that includes me. I can support “justice,” vote, argue, share posts, and feel certain, and still be wrong in a way that cannot be undone. That wasn’t a moral speech to myself. It was me r

Truth feels harder to grab lately, doesn’t it? Like we’re all squinting through fog while scrolling the feed. I just published a new post on how truth gets blurred in three different ways: • Misinformation (false, usually shared without malicious intent) • Malinformation (true info used to harm—often by stripping missing context) • Propaganda (strategic messaging that shapes belief over time) I also included quick, practical “spot it in the wild” tips and what to do next when

For as long as I can remember, I’ve been the kind of person who values truth over opinion. Not because opinions don’t matter, they do. But because opinions without solid ground can turn into noise fast.