Do you ever try to explain pseudoscience to people? John Cook tells us how to do debunking more effectively.
Tag: critical thinking
By the light of salt | Day 298
Put a light bulb into a lump of crystal, and magi… Oh wait, that’s not how the world works. Salt lamps may be pretty, but they won’t heal your asthma.
Oh no, not the E numbers | Day 271a
Chemophobia tends to really irritate me. Such as when people avoid products because of perfectly good ingredients which happen to be marked with a number.
Science inoculation | Day 255
How to inoculate people against pseudoscience? Teach them logical fallacies, says John Cook. It’s like a weaker version of nonsense.