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Saturday, 28 November 2015

The Baloney Detection Kit

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/
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