(Linking does not constitute endorsement or agreement. Stay skeptical.)
• Chris Mooney cites a recent study on how online comments affect scientific understanding.
• Amanda Marcotte’s analysis of a well-intentioned but flawed rape-statistics graphic is a great tool for teaching critical thinking.
• A new skeptical activism project collects for a children’s hospital.
• Mike Rothschild takes exception to Kitty Werthman’s distorted history.
• Steven Novella’s thoughts on the relationship Religion, Science and Philosophy have to Morality.
• Psychologists Uncover Hidden Signals of Trust — Using a Robot.
• Persuasive reasons why America’s Kids Need New Standards for Science Education.
• The latest word on positive psychology: The Science of Our Optimism Bias and the Life Cycle of Happiness.
• How to get more science news in the Black press? Thoughts on Promoting Science to Under-Served Audiences.
• Critical Thinking and Compromise: Sally Strikes a Deal.
• Is racial essentialism linked with more general closed-mindedness and lack of creativity?
• Does Being Skeptical Make You a Good Person?
• An interesting and data-rich academic article on Pitfalls and Opportunities in Nonverbal and Verbal Lie Detection.
• The 12 cognitive biases that prevent you from being rational. (I, for one, have far more than 12.)
• Professor John Vandermeer challenges environmentalist Mark Lynas on GMOs.
• Are the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiments responsible for HIV/AIDS-related beliefs among African-Americans and Latinos?
