Comments on: The fashion for fact checking https://rogermarjoribanks.info/quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes-guards-guardians/ Sat, 14 Feb 2026 08:45:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.8.41 By: The ninety seven percent solution « Roger Marjoribanks Roger Marjoribanks https://rogermarjoribanks.info/quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes-guards-guardians/#comment-129 Wed, 08 Dec 2021 08:45:39 +0000 http://rogermarjoribanks.info/?p=1307#comment-129 […] A take-home gift for the self-styled “fact’ checkers which today infest all forms of media (see here). I would be surprised if any of these people ever actually read the detail of the Cook and Co […]

]]> By: The purpose of science is to seek truth, not proclaim it « Roger Marjoribanks Roger Marjoribanks https://rogermarjoribanks.info/quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes-guards-guardians/#comment-103 Fri, 23 Apr 2021 06:09:04 +0000 http://rogermarjoribanks.info/?p=1307#comment-103 […] The current proliferation of  “fact” checkers on electronic media assume the role of guardians of fact and custodians of truth with apparently little apparent awareness of their own potential biases. But I will leave that subject for another blog post, which you can read here. […]

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