alternative facts
Your brain stops at the most comforting thought. The truth is somewhere beyond that. Using scientific skepticism as a guide, astrophysicist Lawrence Krauss outlines the questions that critical thinkers ask themselves.
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A new study explains why and how people choose to avoid information and when that strategy could be beneficial.
A college course on how to recognize “bullshit” addresses fake news, memes, clickbaiting and misleading advertising.
Regardless of truth, the best storyteller wins: how else could a quarter of Americans, many struggling financially, ‘relate’ to a billionaire real estate mogul?