Magnetic North: One Journalist's Quest to Make Sense of the Universe

Magnetic North: One Journalist's Quest to Make Sense of the Universe

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The BS Asymmetry principle, also known as Brandolini's law explained with one person struggling to persuade their friend that the moon isn't made of cheese

In 2013, an Italian programmer named Alberto Brandolini introduced a concept called “Brandolini’s Law” which goes something like this: The considerable effort of debunking misinformation is an order of magnitude greater than the relative ease of creating it in the first place." Journalists and science communicators have lived and breathed Brandolini’s …

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