Promoting Science and Critical Thinking
Where I’m going to go here is to talk about a new psychological study that reveals something truly fascinating. However, before we get into it, let’s first start with something rather important. You can be fooled, I can be fooled, we can all be conned and manipulated. Why? Basically because we humans are awash with … Read more
Pastor Blake Bergstrom of One Church in Georgia made the truly outrageous claim that there is a law in Colorado that allows parents to “murder a baby” seven days after it’s born. He added to that by also claiming that in California they are making a law that would allow parents to kill their baby … Read more
We all know that misinformation and disinformation abounds and is currently running rampant. Thankfully there are also some very useful resources that can really help: To be specific, I mean the fact-checkers. Well-known examples of organizations that are wholly and completely focused on fact-checking include … FactCheck.org PolitiFact Snopes etc… There are of course many … Read more
Dubious Sea Level Claim case study.
When faced with claims, how should we critically analyse them, what approach is the best one to take?
What strategies can be adopted to successfully counter misinformation, is there an effective vaccine that will immunize you against the lies?
A new Pew Poll hides the very concerning truth that many can no longer identify what is reliable and trustworthy and what is Fake News