In this provocative and darkly funny episode of Living in a Post-Truth World: The Death Of Fact, host Dr. John Schinnerer explores how America entered the post-truth era—and what it’s costing our democracy, our public health, and our sanity.
Dr. John examines how the Trump administration’s documented removal and disruption of public datasets—from health and climate reports to environmental justice tools—has contributed to a growing erosion of shared reality. Drawing on investigative reporting from Brookings, KFF, ProPublica, AP News, and others, he separates documented evidence from clearly labeled inference to ask a critical question:
What happens when the scoreboard disappears?
This episode breaks down:
- The difference between misinformation and “measurement sabotage”
- Health data and federal public health pages taken offline
- The disappearance of major climate assessments from government websites
- The shutdown of environmental justice mapping tools
- How loss of public data impacts maternal health, public safety, and policymaking
- Why fear, uncertainty, and nervous system dysregulation make men especially vulnerable to propaganda
- The psychological mechanics behind the post-truth movement
- How narrative control replaces evidence when public measurement is weakened
Dr. John also brings in philosophy—yes, epistemology—to explain why understanding how we know what we know is no longer academic trivia but democratic survival training.
Most importantly, he offers practical tools to stay grounded in a chaotic information landscape, including his CALM framework for “fact fitness”. This is not a partisan rant. It’s a sober, evidence-based discussion about protecting shared reality in an age of narrative warfare. If you care about democracy, critical thinking, media literacy, public health data, climate transparency, and staying regulated in polarized times, this episode is essential listening. Because when facts disappear, whoever holds the microphone controls reality. And that should concern all of us.
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