A WORD IN THE HAND: PROOF
SUE DE GROOT | Don’t go looking for proof in puddings unless you can swallow age-old truths
A column to satisfy your inner grammar nerd
20 January 2022 - 20:52
Proving one’s worth, be that as a journalist, a pudding, a politician or a hedgehog, is an onerous undertaking.
In what some folks weirdly call a “post-truth world”, how is it possible to prove the truth of a particular fact, no matter how robustly this truth might be backed up by peer-reviewed scientific research, when those who dispute “truth” and “proof” have only to say: “Ah, but you’re ignoring the alternative ‘facts’.”..
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