
The three duties of epistemic diligence
A need for epistemic due diligence is standardly recognized by all kinds of investigator. For some professions and vocations—including academics, journalists, police, courts, and intelligence [...]
A need for epistemic due diligence is standardly recognized by all kinds of investigator. For some professions and vocations—including academics, journalists, police, courts, and intelligence [...]
This critical analysis of an influential reporter with a reputation for liberalism goes to the heart of the contradictions within anglophone reportage on Syria. These have reached crunch point [...]
By Tim Hayward, published on his website, May 5, 2017 The BBC has announced that ‘Syria’s government is continuing to make chemical weapons in violation of a 2013 deal to eliminate them’. But if [...]
By Professor Tim Hayward (University of Ediburgh), published on his website, May 2, 2017 In my previous post [April 28], I urged George Monbiot to check the basis of his assumptions about the [...]
Open letter by Professor Tim Hayward (University of Edinburgh), published on his website, April 28, 2017 I write this open letter, George, because you have been using your public platform to [...]
By Tim Hayward, University of Edinburgh, published on his website, April 18, 2017 I’m no expert about Syria, so why these blogposts? The initial stimulus was realising that people of good will [...]
By Professor Tim Hayward, published on his website, Feb 6, 2017 Difficulties faced news organisations attempting to cover events in the war in Syria, particularly in the eastern part of Aleppo [...]
By Professor Tim Hayward, published on his website ‘Tim Hayward’, Jan 23, 2017 Most of us living outside Syria know very little of the country or its recent history. What we think we [...]
By Tim Hayward, University of Edinburgh, published on his blog, Dec 30, 2016 I have unbounded admiration for the doctors who volunteer for the invaluable and often dangerous work of Médicins Sans [...]