Hans Christian Andersen’s nineteenth-century fairy tale “The Emperor’s New Clothes” is celebrated for showing how easily a kingdom can be persuaded, by the power of authority, of ludicrous claims, even when there is no empirical evidence to back them. Hear something often enough, say something often enough, and falsehood becomes truth […] The post The Slow, But Powerful, Erosion of Flattery appeared first on Common Reader.
