Skeptic: Promoting Science and Critical Thinking

This 16-page booklet is designed to hone your critical thinking skills. It includes suggestions on what questions to ask, what traps to avoid, specific examples of how the scientific method is used to test pseudoscience and paranormal claims, and a how-to guide for developing a class in critical thinking.

Plus, you’ll also find:

• Sagan’s Ten Tools for Baloney Detection and Shermer’s Ten Questions For Baloney Detection
• How Thinking Goes Wrong: The 25 Fallacies of Thinking
  • Problems in Scientific Thinking
    1. Theory Influences Observations
    2. The Observer Changes the Observed
    3. Equipment Construct Results
  • Problems in Pseudoscientific Thinking
    4. Anecdotes Do Not Make a Science
    5. Scientific Language Does Not Make a Science
    6. Bold Statements Do Not Make True Claims
    7. Heresy Does Not Equal Correctness
    8. Burden of Proof
    9. Rumors Do Not Equal Reality
    10. Unexplained is Not Inexplicable
    11. Failures are Rationalized
    12. After-the-Fact Reasoning
    13. Coincidence
    14. Representativeness
  • Logical Problems in Thinking
    15. Emotive Words and False Analogies
    16. Ad Ignorantiam
    17. Ad Hominem and Tu Quoque
    18. Hasty Generalization
    19. Over-reliance on Authorities
    20. Either-Or
    21. Circular Reasoning
    22. Reductio ad Absurdum and the Slippery Slope
  • Psychological Problems in Thinking
    23. Effort Inadequacies and the Need for
    24. Problem-Solving Inadequacies
    25. Ideological Immunity, or The Planck Problem
• Eight Sample Syllabi: How to Teach a Course in Science & Pseudoscience
• The Most Recommended Skeptical Books
• Science and Skepticism: Science, Scientific Method and Skepticism — How They Contribute to Rational and Critical Thinking

Multiple Copy Deal

Save on multiple copies of any combination of these four items:

• A Skeptic’s Guide to Global Climate Change
• How to Debate A Creationist
• The Baloney Detection Kit
• The Soul of Science

The discounts:

• 5 or more: 10% off
• 10 or more: 15% off
• 25 or more: 20% off
• 50 or more: 30% off

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