Denver Post columnist, Krista Kafer, joined our July 2024 monthly meeting for her presentation, “When the garden grows, so do the weed: Misinformation and Disinformation in the Information Age.” Around 45 Jefferson Humanists members and friends enjoyed her talk that compared information to a garden, with plants you want to grow as factual information and disinformation/misinformation equivalent to weeds. Krista noted that what we are going through now isn’t unprecedented and is comparable to the explosion of information when the printing press was invented and became widespread. Krista made it clear that censorship is just as bad, if not moreso, than mis/dis-information, since the consumer has the freedom to accept or not accept the information they come across.
Separation of Church and State, Part II
Separation of Church and State – A Series of Articles This is the 2nd in a series of articles on the Separation of Church and
