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Too Big to Know

Rethinking Knowledge Now That the Facts Aren't the Facts, Experts Are Everywhere, and the Smartest Person in the Room Is the Room
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Oct 29, 2014StarGladiator rated this title 4 out of 5 stars
An interesting book [excellent comments by CatherineLibrarian on it] and to paraphrase the author, the Web allows us to be skeptical and to be independent thinkers and researchers: when Thomas Mallon writes a book called, Mrs. Paine's Garage, supposedly based on the Kennedy assassination, we can use the Internet and the Web sitting upon it, to find out the background of Mallon, and delve deeply into the backgrounds of Mr. and Mrs. Paine, far, far more deeply than we ever could, and in much condensed time, than ever before. It now becomes easy to distinguish Mallon's fiction, from the real facts! If I wish to know who the people are which Secretary of State Hillary Clinton appointed, I can use the Web to find out that Victoria Nuland is a former Cheney policy advisor [as in Dick Cheney] and that Marc Grossman is not only a former member of the Bush Administration [one of his Vulcans, or inner circle] but also related to George W. Bush, then I can wonder why Hillary is appointing all these former Cheney/Bush people?