There is a far greater danger lurking, which has been called "counter-knowledge". Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda.
From selling fiction as truth in books and movies to the big lies of counter-knowledge is not such a very big step after all.
One of the main branches of counter-knowledge is pseudo-history, in which the pseudo-historian creates his or her theory, then cherry-picks the evidence to support it, all the while ignoring or dismissing any facts which contradict the thesis.
Drawing on some anarchist and cryptographic perspectives, I figure black data as "black ops," secret or encrypted forms of counter-knowledge that challenge or refuse some of the demands of contemporary imperial power, especially the demand to be seen.
She reported that male langurs would occasionally kill infants, and this ran counter to knowledge in the field, namely that humans are the only species that kills its own kind and that the young fall into a protected category.
First Sergeant Alberto Arean Varela, head of the anti-drug and organised crime police unit at the Guardia Civil in Ibiza, said the claims ran counter to his knowledge of trafficking cases.
But when I decipher an inscription, the burden is on me to give my grounds for the decipherment: merely stating something to be a fact won't hack it, especially if it runs counter to traditional knowledge.
It always has been and will always be my opinion that where there is ignorance, people need to counter it with knowledge.
They are countered by medical knowledge.
The Smoking Man counters that public knowledge of the truth would create mass panic and do more harm than good.
