Under an avalanche of fake news and misinformation, it seems more important than ever to understand how we know what’s true. On March 11, 2017 we brought out a panel of speakers to The Needle Vinyl Tavern in Edmonton. They answered audience questions about how they know what’s true in their field.

Our panelists in this episode:
– Dr. Kisha Supernant (Métis Anthropology Professor & Archaeologist at the University of Alberta)
– Dave Cournoyer (Writer/Political Watcher at daveberta.ca)
– Sarah Hoyles (Producer behind the ECAMP podcast on Edmonton history)

All photos for this episode by Kate Lucyk

Further reading:

• The truth-lite comment on Jezebel blog The Slot about Kellyanne Conway and Anderson Cooper
• Senator Lynn Beyak defending what she called the “well-intentioned” residential school system
• Hardcore History 48 – Prophets of Doom (the one about the printing press)
• Two links from Dr. Kisha Supernant about the current research on how humans migrated to the Americas:
  • From Vilified to Vindicated: the Story of Jacques Cinq-Mars
  • Postglacial relative sea-level history of the Prince Rupert area, British Columbia, Canada (Letham et al, 2016)
• Sapiens.org – a good resource for anthropology updates
• Google Newspaper Archives
• The Alberta Hansard
• Alberta Legislature Library Scrapbook Hansard Digital Collection
• Peel’s Prairie Provinces collection of newspapers and other historical materials
• Internet Archive Wayback Machine
• Three sources on the “fake news” that Wilfrid Laurier didn’t baptize his kids:
  • Winnipeg Free Press
  • Canada’s History
  • Wilfrid Laurier by Roderick Stewart
• The Financial Post investigated that Zhou Enlai quote about the French Revolution
• The ECAMP Podcast: From Barber to Farmer (about Toyomatsu Kimura)