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Disinformation Vaccines

March 24, 2024November 13, 2020 by Dave
Disinformation

What strategies can be adopted to successfully counter misinformation, is there an effective vaccine that will immunize you against the lies?

Categories Critical Thinking, Fake News, fake news, Skepticism, society Tags disinformation, prebunking, vaccines Leave a comment

#QAnon updates – What happens inside the cult now?

August 13, 2024November 11, 2020 by Dave
QAnon

QAnon is reaching a crises point. When Trump’s election defect is accepted, will the QAnon cult collapse or will something else happen?

Categories Crisis, Critical Thinking, kooks, religion, Skepticism, society, weird Tags #QAnon, crises, cult, QAnon Leave a comment

Bizarre Scientific Paper: Amulets may prevent COVID-19

February 18, 2024November 10, 2020 by Dave
Amulets

Retracted paper claimed that Jade Amulets may help prevent COVID-19. What is the story here and how exactly did this get published?

Categories Critical Thinking, science, Skeptic news, Skepticism, society Tags Amulets Leave a comment

Why are we attracted to Conspiracy Theories?

September 2, 2024October 26, 2020 by Dave
conspiracy theory

Why do humans get ensnared by conspiracy theories that are rather obviously not actually true at all, what is it about us that enables this?

Categories Critical Thinking, People, psychology, Skepticism, society Tags conspiracy, conspiracy theory, psychology, QAnon Leave a comment

James Randi has passed away – #TheAmazingRandi

December 23, 2023October 22, 2020 by Dave
james randi

James Randi has died at the age of 92. He will be greatly missed because he was hughly influential within the lives of many many people.

Categories Critical Thinking, Jamed Randi, People, Skeptics Tags #TheAmazingRandi, James Randi Leave a comment

The illusion of Simple answers – Least Religious Country

March 11, 2024October 19, 2020 by Dave
simple answers

What is the least religious country? A simply answer has the potential to fool you. The actual answer is rather complicated.

Categories atheism, Critical Thinking, People, psychology, religion, society Tags complexity, simple answers, truth Leave a comment
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