Truthiness
October, 2008
IN A POST-FACT SOCIETY, TRUTH IS JUST A BELIEFIn late February Republican presidential candidate John McCain was at a town hall meeting in Texas when the mother of an autistic child asked him an easy question: Did he believe there was a link between her son's condition and childhood vaccines?This was an easy question because science has given us a definitive answer: There is no link. For the bet-ter part of a decade vocal advocacy groups, many founded by aggrieved parents of autistic children,...
