To be fair to @TimHarford , while he picks fashionable targets for his piece, there are some absolute gems in it.
"The false claim was vastly more powerful than a true one would have been, not because it was bigger, but because everybody kept talking about it."https://twitter.com/anomalyuk/status/983707555523448832 …
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If most of the _facts_ in public debate are beyond the capacity of the public to understand or put into context, what difference does it make whether they're true or false?
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