Critical Thinking

There Is No Proof of Rampant Anti-Semitism in University Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Offices
Higher Education Reform
January 19, 2022

There Is No Proof of Rampant Anti-Semitism in University Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Offices

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Going Around in Circles with Long COVID
International Debate
October 19, 2021

Going Around in Circles with Long COVID

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Is the Sunk Cost Fallacy ‘First Doing Harm’ in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?
Public Policy
August 25, 2021

Is the Sunk Cost Fallacy ‘First Doing Harm’ in Chronic Fatigue Syndrome?

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Finding Fault with Faux Facts
Higher Education Reform
April 14, 2021

Finding Fault with Faux Facts

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When Ignorance is Anything But Bliss

When Ignorance is Anything But Bliss

David Canter considers the tragic implications of people not understanding what they are told by politicians and experts.

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What I Have Learned from Social Science

What I Have Learned from Social Science

Ziyad Marar, Sage’s president of global publishing, reflects on how his career and his studies of psychology, linguistics and philosophy leave him thinking a social science imagination benefits us as individuals and improves society more generally, especially in times of upheaval and reconfiguration.

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Confirmation Bias Is a Helluva Drug

Confirmation Bias Is a Helluva Drug

We expect to see confirmation bias play an active role in the politics, where there is a satisfying emotional payoff from assuming the worst of the other side. We do not expect the same phenomenon among highly educated professionals, especially in their seemingly well researched publications. And yet …

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The Case For Democracy In The Covid 19 Pandemic

The Case For Democracy In The Covid 19 Pandemic

The author of a new book on the response to the coronavirus tries first to understand how apparently sane people could think it made sense to implement damaging policies, and secondly asks how the public might ensure that such a disastrous episode can never happen again.

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10 Tips for Spotting Misinformation Online

10 Tips for Spotting Misinformation Online

It’s tempting to blame bots and trolls for spreading misinformation. But really it’s our own fault for sharing so widely. Research has confirmed that lies spread faster than truth – mainly because lies are not bound to the same rules as truth.

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They Don’t Want You to Know That Not All Conspiracy Theories Should Be Treated the Same

They Don’t Want You to Know That Not All Conspiracy Theories Should Be Treated the Same

Ever since the coronavirus spread across the world, suspicions have proliferated about what is really going on. Questions arose about the origins […]

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Deconstructing ‘Plandemic’: Seven Traits of Conspiratorial Thinking

Deconstructing ‘Plandemic’: Seven Traits of Conspiratorial Thinking

As scholars who research how to counter science misinformation and conspiracy theories, we believe there is also value in exposing the rhetorical techniques used in the viral video Plandemic. There are seven distinctive traits of conspiratorial thinking. Plandemic offers textbook examples of them all.

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The 7 Deadly Sins of Coronavirus Thinking

The 7 Deadly Sins of Coronavirus Thinking

The answer for the kind of panicked flurry in reasoning we’re seeing during the COVID-19 pandemic may lie in a field of critical thinking called vice epistemology. This theory argues our thinking habits and intellectual character traits cause poor reasoning.

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