been emboldened by the Trump strategy and rewarded with collaborative roles in the making of public policy. An essential part of this combat centers on fostering the education of future generations of young people, training them in critical thinking and the ability to distinguish fact from bullshit...
A pilgrimage to the Campo di Fiori can be a useful reminder of how the powers-that-be once dealt with free-thinking dissidents. Today, though, I no longer think only of the past when I look at the statue – for in the early years of the twenty-first century, Western societies have ...
Science advocates and scientific skeptics rely on the methods of scientific research, critical thinking and methodological skepticism. Science denialists, on the other hand, also have their own methods to push their misinformation and artificially inflate fear, uncertainty and doubt. These are called den...
Confirmation bias is innate and in all of us. God gave each of us a brain to critically examine information. Some of us are more inclined than others to practice critical thinking. It’s natural for each of us to lean toward information that aligns with our desires and beliefs. It also ...
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Oil companies cannot keep them in business single handedly. This can be applied to other things like pipes as well. This is what the death spiral of the oil industry will probably look like. Hideaway: I was thinking when reading your post Kira, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes. I certainly ...
Just prior to the publishing of Darwin’s theory of evolution, there occurred an event that may have actually helped make his ideas more credible even to devout Christians in England. In a desperate attempt to reconcile modern findings in geology with the teachings of the Bible, the naturalist...
Thinking about denial of service in Internet protocolsdoi:10.1109/cris.2009.5071490Tuomas AuraIEEE2009 Fourth International Conference on Critical Infrastructures
Now we know that given the opportunity, we would act just the same way the majority of Germans did, in turning a blind eye to what we know is morally unjust and thinking we can continue with our own lives. We will watch the slaughter and deplore it, but why don’t we have the ...
The denial obsession focuses on more weighty matters and generally reflects a concern that one is fooling themselves about something they deem to be “important”. Even within the context of OCD, there are many situations in which“what if…”thinking is present and wreaking havoc on a person’...