The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World by Linsey McGoey

The Unknowers: How Strategic Ignorance Rules the World

Linsey McGoey

256 pages first pub 2019 (view editions)

nonfiction informative reflective slow-paced
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Deliberate ignorance has been known as the "Ostrich Instruction" in law courts since the 1860s. It illustrates a recurring pattern in history in which figureheads for major companies, political leaders, and industry bigwigs plead ignorance to avoi...

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