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A new year’s gift: two tools to help discover truth in the news

By / 10 Comments / 2 January 2017

Summary: To give you a powerful start to the New Year, here are two brief passages I strongly recommend. They can be transformational for you. Both are excerpts from longer essays well worth reading, but even these excerpts will help you in the years to come. Rapid change in every aspect of our complex ever-larger world — confusion and disorientation …

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Skepticism

Learning skepticism, an essential skill for citizenship in 21st century America

By / 18 Comments / 24 June 2018

Summary:  In the New America we’re controlled by skillful propaganda. To regain our freedom we must develop greater skepticism. Here’s a good place to start, with an except from Marcello Truzzi’s famous article about the important role of skepticism in science.  His insights can help us better understand many of important public policy debates. For …

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Resolution of the Great Submarine Cable Crisis – and some lessons learned

By / 23 Comments / 30 May 2010

As more data comes in, it is increasingly apparent that the great Submarine Cable Crisis of 2008 was another false alarm.  Yet again a large chunk of the blogosphere went crazy over a non-event.  A follow-up to this post of 7 February. I.  “Conspiracy Theories Behind Those Cut Undersea Cables“, Ben Worthen, Blog of the Wall …

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