Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

by Carl T. Bergstrom

In the humanities and the social sciences, students are taught to smash conflicting ideas up against one another and grapple with discordant arguments. In STEM fields, students seldom are given paradoxes that they need to resolve, conflicting forms of evidence that they must reconcile, or fallacious claims that they need to critique.

The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.