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Mission statement Teach critical thinking. Explain how science works and why it is reliable. Use critical thinking to defend science against the numerous logically flawed attacks that are hurled at it.
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Anti-vaccers are fundamentally wrong about placebo-controlled trials
Anti-vaxxers love to demand placebo-controlled trials and insist that nothing else will suffice for demonstrating vaccine safety. This approach to medical research is flawed for a number of reasons. First, as I've explained previously, new vaccines are, i
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Understanding analogies in logical arguments
Yesterday, on this blog's Facebook page, I posted the stick figure comic on the right, lightly making fun of anti-vaccers and using analogies to demonstrate why they are wrong that 100% effectiveness is needed for vaccines to be useful. I … Continue readi
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Stop blaming China and India for climate change
Over and over again when discussing climate change, I encounter Americans who insist that there is no point in doing anything because China and India are the real problem. This claim takes various forms but generally includes claiming that America's … Con
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Big pharma is not buying favorable peer-reviews
Science-deniers have a long history of blindly assuming that any research they don't like must have been corrupted by "big whatever," and I constantly see people assume a study had conflicts of interest rather than actually checking for conflicts. Lately,
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Is the "backfire effect" real?
The "backfire effect" is a psychological phenomenon in which correcting misinformation actually reinforces the false view rather than causing someone to reject it (Nyhan and Reifler 2010). This topic comes a lot in the comments on this and other pro-scien
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