User:Laszlo.makay/sandbox/Pro-Truth Pledge

The Pro-Truth Pledge is a movement and an initiative of the Rational Politics (RAP) project of Intentional Insights (InIn) ), a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting rational thinking and proper decision-making in various areas of life. Pro-Truth Pledge is partially reaction (and a would-be answer) to recent political changes in the US and UK, for example to Alternative Facts promoted by the Trump government. The founders of the Pro-Truth Pledge initiative hope to fight and reverse these political trends by educating the public and the voters, as well as using behavior and social science methods. These behavior and social science methodologies/research  behind the Pro-Truth Pledge were mostly developed by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky.

According to the project's home page 3794 persons signed the Pledge, including 33 organizations, 69 government officials, and 321 public figures. The map of the pledge takers reveals that most (above 90%) of the pledge takers lives in North America, mainly in the US.

The actual pledge is as follows:

"I Pledge My Earnest Efforts To: 

'''Share truth ''' • Verify: fact-check information to confirm it is true before accepting and sharing it  • Balance: share the whole truth, even if some aspects do not support my opinion • Cite: share my sources so that others can verify my information • Clarify: distinguish between my opinion and the facts

Honor truth

• Acknowledge: acknowledge when others share true information, even when we disagree otherwise • Reevaluate: reevaluate if my information is challenged, retract it if I cannot verify it • Defend: defend others when they come under attack for sharing true information, even when we disagree otherwise • Align: align my opinions and my actions with true information

Encourage truth

• Fix: ask people to retract information that reliable sources have disproved even if they are my allies • Educate: compassionately inform those around me to stop using unreliable sources even if these sources support my opinion • Defer: recognize the opinions of experts as more likely to be accurate when the facts are disputed • Celebrate: celebrate those who retract incorrect statements and update their beliefs toward the truth"