Truth course
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*"I'm not a prostitute", "now we're only dickering about price" joke | *"I'm not a prostitute", "now we're only dickering about price" joke | ||
*Prisoner's dilemma comic as a start: show how golden rule applies. | *Prisoner's dilemma comic as a start: show how golden rule applies. | ||
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| + | == Resources == | ||
| + | * Steven Poole, "Unspeak" http://unspeak.net/ | ||
| + | * Brooks Jackson, "unSpun: Finding Facts in a World of Disinformation" http://FackCheck.org | ||
| + | * Steven Novella, "Medical Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths: What We Think We Know May Be Hurting Us" http://www.teach12.com/tgc/courses/course_detail.aspx?cid=1924 | ||
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| + | == Critical Thinking Projects == | ||
| + | * How does wikipedia attempt to maintain accuracy in the face of anarchy? Proselytizers, saboteurs, etc. How do judges, lawmakers, and executives? Democracy? Science? Other Brin categories? | ||
| + | * How does the jargon of a creationist or libertarian (with all their redefinitions and dog whistles) compare to the jargon or "terms of art" of lawyers or other fields? | ||
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****card backs versus cheaters logic | ****card backs versus cheaters logic | ||
*Where do we go now that we know the truth? | *Where do we go now that we know the truth? | ||
| − | **We cannot go alone: organization needed.*The story of suzie on youtube (atheism)* | + | **We cannot go alone: organization needed.*The story of suzie on youtube (atheism)* |
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| + | *What's wrong with the Great Global Warming Swindle? | ||
| + | ** http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2009/07/whats_wrong_with_the_great_glo.p | ||
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| + | *On Truth (Hardcover) by Harry G. Frankfurt (Author) | ||
| + | *Bullshit and Philosophy by Gary L. Hardcastle, George A. Reisch | ||
| + | *Alex Carey, "Taking the Risk Out of Democracy: Corporate Propaganda versus Free | ||
| + | dom and Liberty" | ||
| + | *http://xkcd.com/628/ | ||
| + | *even skeptics have their own idiocies:** Maher on vaccines: http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/?p=1251** "Unfortunately, if there’s one thing I’ve learned over the years | ||
| + | since I became more involved with the skeptical movement, it’s that being an ag | ||
| + | nostic, atheist, or skeptic is no guarantee against falling for pseudoscience." | ||
| + | * Shermer, Penn and Teller on libertarianism | ||
| − | + | *Arthur Goldwag, "Cults, Conspiracies, and Secret Societies: The Straight Scoop | |
| − | * | + | on Freemasons, The Illuminati, Skull and Bones, Black Helicopters, The New World |
| − | + | Order, and many, many more" | |
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| − | == | + | *http://crispian-jago.blogspot.com/2009/06/total-perspective-vortex.html |
| − | * | + | *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q&feature=player_embedded |
| − | * | + | *Star Size Comparison by Phil Plait: you are not the center of the universe. |
| + | *Can you believe your eyes? Not for some things. Photos? No. | ||
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| + | *how and what versus why: science not for why, because that's a question about | ||
| + | intentions. | ||
| + | *http://zs1.smbc-comics.com/comics/20091018.gif | ||
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| + | *Ask students what organic means, as in organic food. Then have them research i | ||
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| + | *heuristics for futurism | ||
| + | *http://unenumerated.blogspot.com/2009/10/how-to-save-yourself-from-chasing.html | ||
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| + | *Robert Trivers on deceit, self-deception, and warfare | ||
| + | *http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1418765876869943316# | ||
| + | *http://www.hotales.org/writings/trivers-on-deceit-self-deception-and-warfare.ht | ||
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| + | *Bad Science (Paperback) by Ben Goldacre* health quackery | ||
| + | *Example of surviving passenger claiming a miracle: what about the otherpassengers who died? | ||
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| + | *The Common Sense Guide to "Organic" and Other Food Labels | ||
| + | *http://lifehacker.com/5488799/the-common-sense-guide-to-organic-and-other-food- | ||
| + | labels | ||
| + | *At about 2:40 into this hysterical Penn & Teller episode would claim that label | ||
| + | ing and certification are the ONLY difference between "organic" and non-organic. | ||
| + | Well, that and price. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhBKtjDtTVk | ||
| + | *http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/30/health/30salt.html?pagewanted=3&ref=business | ||
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| + | *http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=304 | ||
| + | *Ten Signs a Claimed Mathematical Breakthrough is Wrong | ||
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| + | *http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/cosmicvariance/2007/06/19/the-alternative-sci | ||
| + | ence-respectability-checklist/ | ||
| + | *The Alternative-Science Respectability Checklist | ||
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| + | *http://www.tomscott.com/warnings/ | ||
| + | *Journalism Warning Labels | ||
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| + | *http://xkcd.com/808/ | ||
| + | *if pseudoscience worked, we'd use it for profit | ||
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| + | *http://www.salon.com/entertainment/comics/this_modern_world/2010/10/19/this_modern_world | ||
| + | *Can Invisible-Hand-of-the-Free-Market Man ever be stopped -- or lose popularity? | ||
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| + | *Doonesbury 2/13/11, 3000 dead from 9/11, 270,000 dead from gunfire. | ||
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| + | *We economists do not like lexicographic preference offerings precisely because they lead to catastrophe--to results that nobody can with a straight face say are good or moral. Or, at least, we think that such are insane: the sign of an unbalanced mind. | ||
| + | *And it is--the fact that philosophers and lawyers claim to believe in lexicographic preference offerings is a sign that (a) their minds were unbalanced to begin with or (b) their professional training has unbalanced their minds. | ||
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| + | *Historical origin myths | ||
| + | ** yoga | ||
| + | ** http://www.openthemagazine.com/article/living/not-as-old-as-you-think | ||
| + | * martial arts (ask TJ) | ||
| + | * traditional chinese medicine | ||
| + | * mormonism | ||
| + | * christianity | ||
| + | ** jewish zombie quote | ||
| + | ** catholic church origins | ||
| + | ** bible origins | ||
| + | * judaism | ||
| + | ** OT origins | ||
| + | * islam | ||
| + | * scientology | ||
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| + | *How to determine if it is science-based: | ||
| + | ** Is it in science textbooks? For example, nutrition? | ||
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| + | *How 1+1=2 doesn't hold for many types of things: | ||
| + | ** small water drops | ||
| + | ** infinities (counting numbers versus even numbers) | ||
| + | ** bunny rabbits | ||
| + | *It is just a mathematical model that we use for some (many) applications, and | ||
| + | not some ultimate truth. | ||
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| + | *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z2vU8M6CYI | ||
| + | *Beatles 3000: 1000 years in the future, the legacy of John, Paul, Greg, and Scottie remains. | ||
| + | *http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrOUCqOq2g4&feature=watch_response | ||
| + | *JFK 3500 | ||
| + | *cheap signalling vs costly signalling | ||
| + | *http://www.ooblick.com/weblog/2011/03/22/cheap-signaling/ | ||
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| + | *http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_common_misconceptions | ||
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| + | *Kees van Deemter, "Not Exactly: In Praise of Vagueness" | ||
| + | *Sorites paradox: how many stones make a heap | ||
| + | *Wall Street Journal Opinion Section | ||
| + | *http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/journal-economics/ | ||
