Video: ‘Avoiding a New Dark Age & Creating a New Renaissance’

The place where they really get into the educational ‘truth’ issue is at about 2 hrs 14 minutes, where the conversation runs something like —

Mark : “Right now our academies are teaching young people pseudo-science — lies, and they’re not being punished for it. Well, under Curt’s system they can be sued, they can be made liable for speaking falsehoods — and we’re not talking about some person with all power sitting somewhere arbitrarily deciding what’s true …”
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Curt loudly interrupting : “No, it’s just you, you just go there and sue them (laughing…)”
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Mark : “There’s falsehood test. What the person says has to pass certain empirical tests. You go line by line — and these falsehood tests are very hard to argue with …”
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Curt (cutting in) : “It is, it is a checklist, it’s a checklist that works in court, it’s hard for you to believe but the courts do this all the time. This is just a better checklist for the truthful speech, it doesn’t say it’s true, you can still be wrong, right, but it says, (you have the …, you have), you can warranty you are not speaking falsehoods. Right”

Tom Mason concludes:

“To me it sounds like there is more to this issue that may have either been discussed by them prior to the video, or it’s on different video(s), or Curt has written it elsewhere. A checklist for interpreting if someone willfully proclaimed falsehoods in teaching does sound so much like having an authority for truth and how that truth can be taught.

Most of the rest of the video sounds reasonable-ish — it would have been better if more figures were shown.”