Errol Morris
Documentary filmmaker and writer; director of The Thin Blue Line and the Oscar-winning The Fog of War, and author of Believing is Seeing.
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Their wordsThese 17th century debates remind us that if you have an unshakable belief in something, then no amount of evidence (or lack of evidence) can convince you otherwise.
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Our reading
Donald Rumsfeld's tendency to use caveats allowed him to avoid accountability for his statements.
Their wordsPart of his defense was that he was very adept at putting caveats into everything that he said so that he could go back later and cite the caveat.
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Their wordsWell, I think the die was cast not only concerning weapons of mass destruction, but concerning the invasion and the immediate aftermath.
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Their wordsAnd there is nothing arbitrary about fiction and nonfiction, even though they are often hopelessly intermingled.
- 16 months earlier
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Their wordsCould the mere selection of a typeface influence us to believe one thing rather than another?
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Their wordsIt has both the highest rate of agreement and the lowest rate of disagreement.
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Their wordsFonts have different personalities. It seems to me that one thing you can say about Baskerville is that it feels more formal or looks more formal. So that may give it a push in terms of its level of authority.