S11, E6: The Smoking Gun of Cancel Culture
Series 11: The Collateral Damage of Revenge in Science
People can be more readily persuaded to omit inconvenient truths than tell an outright lie, and ‘white lies’, are often omissions to protect someone’s feelings. The idea of a ‘greater good’ is key, because although we might surmise that only the nefarious would collaborate in a deliberate lie, even honest peo…
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