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Truth

A Brief History of Total Bulls--t

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Truth

By: Tom Phillips
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This is a book about truth - and all the ingenious ways, throughout history, that we've managed to avoid it.

We live in a 'post-truth' age, we're told. The US has a president who openly lies on a daily basis (or who doesn't even know what's true, and doesn't care). The internet has turned our everyday lives into a misinformation battleground. People don't trust experts any more.

But was there ever really a golden age of truth-telling?

As the editor of the UK's leading independent fact-checker, Tom Phillips deals with complete bollocks every day. Here, he tells the story of how we humans have spent history lying to each other - and ourselves - and asks an important question: how can humanity move towards a truthier future?

©2019 Tom Phillips (P)2019 Headline Publishing Group Ltd Anthropology World

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"Tom Phillips is a very clever, very funny man." (Greg Jenner)

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The topic of Truth sits at the core of some of the work I do, so I loved hearing truth from different angles with an historical slant. Expanded my way of thinking.

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