The Baloney Detection Kit: Carl Sagan’s Rules for Bullshit-Busting and Critical Thinking
Necessary cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.
[I've become kindof skeptical of these various "fallacies" - they are too easily misunderstood. For most of them I want to respond with, "yeah, but..."]
https://www.brainpickings.org/2014/01/03/baloney-detection-kit-carl-sagan/
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
-
Of course you can prove a negative. In one sense this can be the easiest thing in the world : your theory predicts something which doesn...
-
Where Americans think Ukraine is These are the guesses of 2066 Americans as to where Ukraine is. Only 1 in 6 were correct. Presumably the... -
Hmmm. [The comments below include a prime example of someone claiming they're interested in truth but just want higher standard, where...
No comments:
Post a Comment
Due to a small but consistent influx of spam, comments will now be checked before publishing. Only egregious spam/illegal/racist crap will be disapproved, everything else will be published.