We're in a time of crisis, and one persistent thread is that we're losing our ability, or perhaps our desire, to tell truth from lies.

You may be familiar with how this is manifesting in conspiracy theories and misinformation, but the problem is much worse, and goes much deeper, than you realize.
The NYT quotes SJSU’s assistant coach saying that the trans woman on the team jumps higher & hits harder than the cis women she plays against—but doesn’t check to see if that’s true (it’s not—the screenshot on the right is ESPN’s reporting from earlier this week disproving those claims.

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