Insight | Drift Is The Story
By the time evidence reaches you, something has changed
Between a research laboratory and public understanding lies a translation chain.
Press officers, journalists, policy advisors, and advocates each have good reasons to simplify what arrived at their desk. This Insight names the cumulative result.
System drift is the process by which qualified findings become confident assertions, and confident assertions become things that everyone knows.
The evidence stays the same. What people say evidence shows does not.
System drift explains why the sceptic’s interrogation of authority is structurally necessary, not merely virtuous. Being a Mindful Sceptic builds the case. Read it there first.
