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magicguido

(6,315 posts) Wed May 13, 2020, 10:13 AM May 2020

Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit

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Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit (Original Post) magicguido May 2020 OP

"the left, NPR," has a left agenda? Merlot May 2020 #1

Very good. Behind the Aegis May 2020 #2

Merlot

(9,696 posts)

1. "the left, NPR," has a left agenda?

Reply to magicguido (Original post)

Thu May 14, 2020, 09:45 AM

May 2020

Well, he lost me at the both sides are equal thingy.

Behind the Aegis

(53,951 posts)

2. Very good.

Reply to magicguido (Original post)

Thu May 14, 2020, 03:28 PM

May 2020

Literally an hour ago, I just finished one of his (Michael Shermer) books, Conspiracies & Conspiracy Theories: What We Should and Shouldn't Believe - and Why . Some very useful information in the book and it doesn't take long to finish. Like any good skeptic, he points out conformation bias heavily influences people (see comment above). In the comments section, people are shitting themselves because he "called out" The Wall Street Journal has having a potential bias. Guess who is upset by that remark?

I think I am going to check out some of his other books and the like.

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