Month: August 2002

Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit or “Tools for skeptical thinking.”

What skeptical thinking bolls down to is the means to construct, and to understand, a reasoned argument and -especially important- to recognize a fallacious or fraudulent argument. The question is not whether we like the conclusion that emerges out of a train of reasoning, but whether the conclusion follows from the premise or starting point and whether that premise is true.

Carl Sagan’s Baloney Detection Kit or “Tools for skeptical thinking.”

What skeptical thinking bolls down to is the means to construct, and to understand, a reasoned argument and -especially important- to recognize a fallacious or fraudulent argument. The question is not whether we like the conclusion that emerges out of a train of reasoning, but whether the conclusion follows from the premise or starting point and whether that premise is true.

theora.org where Ogg will meet video.

theora.org where Ogg will meet video.