When our founders created America, it was in the age of the printing press, when individuals could freely join the conversation. And that robust, democratic dialogue more often than not lifted up the best available evidence and asserted what was more likely to be true than not.
Al GoreThe Internet empowers individuals to play a more active role in the political process, as Obama's campaign has manifested.
Al GoreThe science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.
Al GoreGeorge Orwell once wrote that a false belief sooner or later collides with physical reality, usually on a battlefield.
Al GoreEarlier in this century, the Heisenberg Principle established that the very act of observing a natural phenomenon can change what is being observed. Although the initial theory was limited in practice to special cases in subatomic physics, the philosophical implications were and are staggering.
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