1. Wherever possible there must be independent confirmation of the “facts.”
2. Encourage substantive debate on the evidence by knowledgeable proponents of all points of view.
Remember Carl Sagan, who became stardust 20 years ago today, with his Baloney Detection Kit – vital toolkit for our post-fact age, containing Sagan’s nine tenets of healthy skepticism (1 and 2 above) and the twenty most common mistakes in critical thinking. (via explore-blog)
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