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Podcast: New Books In Public Health
Episode: Frederick Schauer, "The Proof: Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything Else" (Harvard UP, 2022)
Description: In a world awash in āfake news,ā where public figures make unfounded assertions as a matter of course, a preeminent legal theorist ranges across the courtroom, the scientific laboratory, and the insights of philosophers to explore the nature of evidence and show how it is credibly established. In the age of fake news, trust and truth are hard to come by. Blatantly and shamelessly, public figures deceive us by abusing what sounds like evidence.Ā InĀ The Proof:Ā Uses of Evidence in Law, Politics, and Everything ElseĀ (Harvard University Press, 2022),Ā preeminent legal theorist Frederick Schauer proposes correctives, drawing on centur...