A few years ago, the inimitable Carl Sagan developed a set of "rules of thumb" to separate truth from crap. Here they are.
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Half of the population of the most powerful country in the world rejects evolution and believes in Satan. It's time we rationalists controlled the debate. ...
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For the past two hundred years, no person claiming to be educated could have possibly entertained the idea that we are here due to "intelligent design". A ...
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We actually suck at a lot of things, especially at probabilistic math... and we need to get better, fast.
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Why it's almost impossible to challenge culture with truth. By Eliezer Yudkowsky.
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The current moral fashions make the heritability of intelligence a taboo topic. Lots of people confuse population data averages with the ability to draw ...
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