![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() written many books, including most recently World Turned Upside Down in 2010. Reason is replaced by bullying, intimidation and the suppression of debate. Melanie Phillips (born 4 June 1951) is a British journalist and author. Knowledge is thus forced to give way to power. So all challenges have to be resisted through coercive means. It has to maintain at all costs the integrity of the falsehood. Moreover, because each assumes itself to be proclaiming the sole and exclusive truth, it cannot permit any challenge to itself. All are therefore based on false or unsupported beliefs that are presented as axiomatically true. Most fundamentally, they all involve the promotion of beliefs that purport to be unchallengeable truths but are in fact ideologies in which evidence is manipulated, twisted and distorted to support and “prove” their governing idea. World Turned Upside Down, Melanie Phillips explains that the basic cause of this. But in fact a number of threads link them all. The Boy Who Turned Lives Around As The World Turned Upside Down. In her new book Melanie Phillips writes: “ What have the issues of anthropogenic global warming, the war in Iraq, Israel and scientism got in common? Not a lot you might think. ![]()
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