TY - JOUR T1 - Wading into the Post-Truth Swamp JF - British Journal of General Practice JO - Br J Gen Pract SP - 99 LP - 99 DO - 10.3399/bjgp22X718541 VL - 72 IS - 716 AU - Euan Lawson Y1 - 2022/03/01 UR - http://bjgp.org/content/72/716/99.abstract N2 - Euan LawsonEdward O Wilson, the American sociobiologist and humanist, died on 26 December 2021 at the age of 92. He offered some keen insight into human interactions and how we conduct research: ‘Science belongs to everybody. Its constituent parts can be challenged by anybody in the world who has sufficient information to do so. It is not just “another way of knowing” as often claimed, making it coequal with religious faith.’ (The Social Conquest of Earth, 2012).In recent times, society and politics have been characterised by polarisation, and the editor CP Scott would be startled to discover that facts are, … ER -