Counter-knowledge covers the propagation of false legends and conspiracy theories often used for political purposes or fundamentalist religious propaganda.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
Sometimes legends make reality, and become more useful than the facts.
Myths which are believed in tend to become true.
Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's completely off the wall, but it gets filed and repeated until everyone believes it. For instance, I've read that I wear a football helmet in the car.
False facts are highly injurious to the progress of science, for they often endure long; but false views, if supported by some evidence, do little harm, for every one takes a salutary pleasure in proving their falseness.
The discovery of truth is prevented more effectively, not by the false appearance things present and which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but by preconceived opinion, by prejudice.
Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.
Facts are counterrevolutionary.
The idea that myth is the opposite of knowledge, or the opposite of truth, is simply to disallow it. It is like saying poetry is the opposite of truth.