A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence
—David Hume
Contents
- HB Blog
- Resources for Critical Thinking, Science, Skepticism, et al.
- Sites on Skepticism, Science and Pseudoscience
- Assays: Investigations of Various Claims
HB Blog
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Resources for Critical Thinking, Science, Skepticism, et al.
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Critical Thinking
- List of online articles on critical thinking by The Critical Thinking Community
- A Field Guide to Critical Thinking, by James Lett
- Critical Thinking: What It Is and Why It Counts, by Peter A. Facione
- Carl Sagan's Baloney Detection Kit
- How Thinking Goes Wrong Twenty-five Fallacies That Lead Us to Believe Weird Things, by Michael Shermer
- Critical Thinking and Its Relation to Science and Humanism, by Steven Schafersman
- Method of Inquiry (criteria for belief), by the Center for Inquiry
- How to Think Critically, by Roger Darlington
- Characterstics of critical thinking, by Raymond Nickerson
- Synposis of Theodore Schick, Jr. and Lewis Vaughn's How to Think About Weird Things: Critical Thinking for a New Age:
Logic and Fallacies
- Fallacies
- Logic and Fallacies
- Fallacy Files, by Gary Curtis
- Logical Fallacies, by philosophical society.com
- A List Of Fallacious Arguments, by Don Lindsay
- Logical Fallacies, by John W. Eshleman
- Guide to Logical Fallacies, by Stephen Downes
- Logical Fallacies in Psychology, by Kenneth Pope
Skepticism
- Wonder and Skepticism, by Carl Sagan
- On the Value of Scepticism, by Bertrand Russell
- Scientific Skepticism, CSICOP, and the Local Groups, by Steven Novella and David Bloomberg
- How To Be a Skeptic, by Michael Shermer
- A Skeptical Manifesto, by Michael Shermer
- Smart People Believe Weird Things, by Michael Shermer
- The Scientific Take on Aliens, Psychic Powers, and Stuff Like That, by Don Lindsay
- Philosopher David Hume on miracles
- Portrait of a Woo Woo, by Claus Larsen
Science and Pseudoscience
- What Is Science? A collection of definitions from scientists and philosophers
- An Introduction to Science: Scientific Thinking and the Scientific Method, by Steven D. Schafersman
- Baloney Detection: How to draw boundaries between science and pseudoscience, Part I, by Michael Shermer
- Baloney Detection: How to draw boundaries between science and pseudoscience, Part II, by Michael Shermer
- Distinguishing Science and Pseudoscience, by Rory Coker
- Science Needs to Combat Pseudoscience: A Statement by 32 Russian Scientists and Philosophers
- The Sources of Pseudoscience, by G. I. Abelev
- Dealing with Astrology, UFOs, and Faces on Other Worlds: A Guide to Addressing Astronomical Pseudoscience in the Classroom, by Andrew Fraknoi
- Astronomical Pseudo-Science: A Skeptic's Resource List, by Andrew Fraknoi
- Pseudoscience: A Cultural Pathogen, by Bruce G. Stewart
- The Seven Warning Signs of Bogus Science, by Robert L. Park
- Science and Pseudoscience: The Differences, by James Randi
- Daring to Tell It Like It Is: A Non-Scientist in the Laboratory, by James Randi
- Questions to help distinguish a pseudoscience from a protoscience (a new science trying to establish its legitimacy)
- What is science? What is Pseudoscience?, by Donald E. Simanek
- The Starchild Project: Anatomy of a Pseudoscience, by Steven Novella
- What is Pseudoscience?, by Stephen G. Saupe
- Science Fiction and Pseudoscience, by the National Science Foundation
- Odds Are Stacked When Science Tries to Debate Pseudoscience, by Lawrence M. Krauss
- Characteristics of Pseudoscience
- Science Vs. Pseudoscience: Where Is The Difference?, by Dr. Massimo Pigliucci
- Objections to Astrology: A Statement by 186 Leading Scientists
- Malcolm J. Sherman's review of Voodoo Science: The Road from Foolishness to Fraud, by Robert L. Park
- Quantum Leaps In the Wrong Direction: Where Real Science Ends and Pseudoscience Begins, by Charles M. Wynn and Arthur W. Wiggins
- Spontaneous Remission and the Placebo Effect, by Stephen Barrett
- Pseudoscience can be deadly, by Jeffrey Shallit
- Scientific Urban Legends
- Science and Pseudoscience
- Using Pseudoscience as an Aid to Teaching General and Analytical Chemistry, by Michael Epstein, Margaret Bullard, Brad Buehler, and Robin Kloster
- Is the Pseudoscience Concept Useful for Clinical Psychology?, by Richard J. McNally
- My Favorite Pseudoscience, by Eugenie C. Scott
- A Conversation With Barbara Forrest, author of Intelligent Design: Creationism's Trojan Horse
- Amicus Curiae Brief of 72 Nobel Laureates, 17 State Academies Of Science, and 7 Other Scientific Organizations Submitted to the US Supreme Court in 1986
Philosophy of Science
- Science as Falsification, by Karl Popper
- Science and Pseudoscience, by Imre Lakatos
- Why Astrology Is A Pseudoscience, by Paul R. Thagard
- Did Popper refute evolution, by Massimo Pigliucci
- Epistemology of Science, Science Literacy, and the Demarcation Criterion: The Nature of Science (NOS) and Informing Science (IS) in Context, by Teresa Castelão-Lawless
- The End of Science?, by Theodore Schick
- The Nature and Philosophy of Science
Web Sites on Skepticism, Science and Pseudoscience
- James Randi Educational Foundation is an educational resource on the paranormal, pseudoscientific and the supernatural. It features a weekly newsletter by James Randi. Certainly a must-read
- Skeptic.com is dedicated to the promotion of science and critical thinking, and to the investigation of extraordinary claims and revolutionary ideas.
- Committee for the Scientific Investigation of the Claims of the Paranormal (CSICOP) encourages the critical investigation of paranormal and fringe-science claims from a responsible, scientific point of view and disseminates factual information about the results of such inquiries to the scientific community and the public. It also promotes science and scientific inquiry, critical thinking, science education, and the use of reason in examining important issues.
- The Skeptic's Dictionary, by Robert T. Carroll
- Quackwatch is a guide to quackery, health fraud, and intelligent decisions.
- Bad Astronomy is run by astronomer Phil Plait and debunks such pseudoscience as the "Face on Mars" and Planet X
- Butterflies and Wheels fights fashionable nonsense, including pseudoscience.
- Philadelphia Association for Critical Thinking
- The National Center for Science Education (NCSE) defends the teaching of evolution in public schools.
- Crank Dot Net lists cranks, crackpots, kooks and loons on the Net... and a smattering of anticranks (antiviruses, so to speak).
- The Debunker's Domain is run by Robert Sheaffer and investigates bogus claims including UFOs.
- The Talk.Origins Archive explores the creation/evolution controversy and features in-depth critiques of creationist claims.
- No Answers in Genesis looks at the various creationist claims.
- The New England Skeptical Society is an organization dedicated to the promotion of science and reason, the investigation of paranormal and pseudoscientific claims, especially within New England, improved standards of education for science and critical thinking skills, and lobbying for rational law making.
- European Council of Skeptical Organisations Protect[s] the public from the promulgation of claims and therapies which have not been subjected to critical testing and thus might pose a danger to them. [I]nvestigate[s] by means of controlled tests and experiments such extraordinary claims which are on the fringe of, or contradict current scientific knowledge....[P]romote[s] public policy based on good practice in science and medicine.
- Circlemakers is the web site of England's crop circle makers. None of the members are aliens.
- RatbagsDotCom
- Skeptico: Critical thinking for an irrational world is a blog site by Richard. Interesting articles on a variety of topics.
Assays: Analysis of Various Claims
- Richard Hoagland's Nonsense, by Phil Plait
- The D&M Pyramid on Mars and Richard Hoagland's Theories About Cydonia, by Ralph Greenberg
- The Planet X Saga, by Phil Plait
- Fox TV and the Apollo Moon Hoax, by Phil Plait
- Tom Bearden - A Critical Examination of His Claims
- A Critical Evaluation of a First Quadrant Advertisement, by Edwardson Tan
- The Incredible Likeness of Beings: Religious Simulacra and Pareidolia, by Edwardson Tan
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