Post election, I properly “twitter ranted” about critical thought in relation to this election, our country, and the issue with it being taught… or *actively* not being taught. Here’s a bunch of tweets, (more…)
Detecting Baloney – the need for development of critical thought & honing our collective faculties….
The Economist is asking why people believe in nonsense. Well I will tell you: Carl Sagan, Richard Feynman, and others have known it for years: We need to teach critical thought to young people, (more…)
Are they Conservatives, Republicans, or Religious?
Why didn’t they look for evidence? Is it because it is much more convenient to believe what you want, when you want, without any data, proof, of evidence? You betcha. These people listen to arguments, on authority, from the likes of Sarah Palin…. just as they mindlessly regurgitate nonsense from the Vatican.
XKCD makes people happy.
I will tell you..I’m about to. So I was wearing that “Science: it works bitches!” Tshirt tonight at the gym”. It’s funny, but true. The back is a graph of the results from the COBE mission. From (more…)