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Carl Sagan’s rules for critical thinking offer cognitive fortification against propaganda, pseudoscience, and general falsehood.
In addition to teaching us what to do when evaluating a claim to knowledge, any good baloney detection kit must also teach us what not to do. It helps us recognize the most common and perilous fallacies of logic and rhetoric. Many good examples can be found in religion and politics, because their practitioners are so often obliged to justify two contradictory propositions.
Scientific Politic appeals to ignorance
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originally posted by: ADVISOR
Encourage substantive debate on the evidence by knowledgeable proponents of all points of view.
Always ask whether the hypothesis can be, at least in principle, falsified. Propositions that are untestable, unfalsifiable are not worth much.
originally posted by: rickymouse
A lot of politicians are not smart enough to comprehend what they are doing to our country with all the division they are promoting. Maybe they should be required to take special training on how to bring the people in the country together for the common good before they are allowed to take their position in government.
originally posted by: budzprime69
a reply to: CosmicFocus
In his years after college his name would've been drug through the mud if he openly talked about little green men. If he had we may never have gotten to listen and watch him as much as we have. I'm ok with him not talking about it as long as he continued to inspire and educate which he did.
originally posted by: crayzeed
a reply to: mysterioustranger
I agree and people can't seem to realise the bull in the china shop. Keep giving your trillions to find cures for cancer, ms etc. etc. keep giving for years. YET! Along comes Covid and they find a cure in less than 12 months.