Look Me in the Eye and Lie

I know Erika already covered the Mike Daisey/TAL/Apple story and so did a lot of other people as smart as she is.  But I’m a slow thinker, so I’m coming in to this a little late and out of left field.  The left field in this case is epistemology, which is “the study of knowledge and justified belief.” […]

Internal monologue: Mike Daisey and the predictability of lies

A lie told for good purposes is not inherently wrong. And besides, Mike Daisey didn’t lie. That’s been Daisey’s defense in the fallout of revelations that he fabricated key details of a now-retracted radio piece on working conditions at a Chinese Apple supplier. Can a person really lie and still believe that he’s telling the […]

Guest Post: Lies and the Lying Bicyclist Who Tells Them

Tyler Hamilton has finally confessed. I am not inclined to give him another hug. In 2007, I wrote a Bicycling magazine feature about Tyler, his supporters and why I don’t believe. (You can read the story here.) While writing the Bicycling story, I spent a lot of time with Tyler and his fans. Tyler— a […]