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Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

by Carl T. Bergstrom and Jevin D. West

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  • ISBN: 0593229762

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Bullshit is not a modern invention. In one of his Socratic dialogues, Euthydemus, Plato complains that the philosophers known as the Sophists are indifferent to what is actually true and are interested only in winning arguments. ^ref-41835

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