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December 10, 2017
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Cultural Production of Ignorance Provides Rich Field for Study

Stanford professor Robert Proctor doesn’t think ignorance is bliss. He thinks that what you don’t know can hurt you. And that there’s more ignorance around than there used…
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Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times
April 11, 2014
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Measuring Executive Pay – and Responsibility

When Nintendo slashed the price of its 6-month-old 3-D game device by nearly a third (to $169.99) a few weeks ago, company President Satoru Iwata voluntarily took a…
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Michael Hiltzik,
Los Angeles Times
August 24, 2011
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