Informational Filtering

I'm short on time lately but a recent piece by Elizabeth Kolbert in the New Yorker, entitled The Things People Say, is an excellent read detailing how the internet helps insure that kook ideas gain currency over reality.  It explains a good deal about our recent health care debate, and also the persistence of such inanities as the so-called "birther" phonomenon.

  

Comments

[Joseph Lott]

Great article - well worth reading.
For those, like me, that had trouble with the link, try cutting and pasting this alternate site address into your browser:

http://www.allbusiness.com/government/government-bodies-offices-legislative/13370935-1.html