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How to Tackle Truth Decay | The Atlantic | Deb Roy
The social contract of trust between experts and society is in danger of dissolving. We need to start putting it back together.

The next stage of truth decay is that those who no longer trust the scientists and technocrats search for alternative sources of information, “truth” from outside the network of elite expertise. The implications are alarming. Acting on beliefs disconnected from reality can lead to catastrophic failures, such as the mishandling of health crises (for example, by encouraging people to ingest or injec

03.03.2024 | The Atlantic