What is Truth?

The quality of seeming true — not because evidence supports it, but because it feels true in your gut. Colbert coined the word satirically. Within two decades it became policy.

We now live in an information ecosystem where people encounter thousands of claims per day — from politicians, podcasters, scientists, conspiracy theorists, and algorithms designed to keep us watching. The problem is no longer a lack of information. The problem is that we can't tell the difference between a fact and a feeling.

CounterPoints was built to restore that difference — not by telling you what to believe, but by showing you exactly what the evidence says and who is saying it.

Eye-witness testimony is one of the most powerful forms of evidence in a courtroom — and one of the least reliable. Studies consistently show that people confidently misremember color, timing, height, and sequence. Stress warps memory formation. Distance degrades detail. Suggestion contaminates recall weeks later.

Descartes proposed radical doubt — systematically questioning every belief, including perceptions, until reaching bedrock certainty. He found only one thing he couldn't doubt: the act of thinking itself. Everything else — including what he saw, heard, and felt — could be mistaken.

Cogito, ergo sum. I think, therefore I am. But what I think I saw? That could easily be wrong. Which is why you need CounterPoints.