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The way science news is reported can be misunderstood. A press release is not a study.
The general public might not understand microbiomes and how they work in us humans.
Science journalists should interview the experts plus learning the topic reported is necessary .
The author supports consumer protection. Fantasy is not real! But there is no harm in liking and being entertained by magic.

chapter 47, 48
Why is this important? Why should anyone care?
Fortunately our world is made up of a variety people with a variety of interests, skills and talents. The title could be misleading but critical thinking is his focus .

Anyone who believes that ESP is a real phenomenon needs a reality check.

He has a blog that's quite popular -needed in current times -explaining the Science clearly and simply and we are all taught to be aware of misinformation whether from persons in authority of not; in otherwirds, wisdom to discern is important.
He discusses Astro-turfing as well as FairBalance.
I've been checking his daily blog as well as finishing this read.

Should be required read for all of us.

Pues este lo agarré de curiosidad den Audible. Está super entretenido y super interesante. No hay muchos conceptos que no conociera pero me gusta mucho cómo los está presentando y como muestra de una forma clara y sencilla como caemos tan facilmente en trampas de la mente.

If only we could get the whole world to read this! Thanks for this Steven and #SGU family!

Characterizing news outlets:
Traditional journalism
Biased or ideological journalism
Opinion outlets
Satirical news
Fake news

9’ motivated reasoning. Fantastic arguments.

Torture the data, and it will confess to anything. —Ronald Coase

We should not assume that our brains are always functioning flawlessly. Brains glitch.

Just wow. Memory is a constructive process. Perception ID a constructive process. Our brains are hard wired to find patterns- massive parallel processing units.

Anomalies are interesting, but they're just anomalies - not evidence of some whack job conspiracy maude up by a lazy brain.

It’s not just other people’s memories that are flawed, it is also our own. Not only are other people guilty of overestimating their knowledge, we overestimate our own too.

When reading a label on a product, ignore your feelings. Your feelings are stupid.

The bottom line is that time itself doesn’t establish whether or not an idea is valid or a claim is true. We still need to rely on logic and evidence.

I win.

Think for yourself, little one!

Be ago mosquito!

This doesn’t mean that all views are equally valid. It does suggest we should strive to focus on logic and evidence, not self-serving assumptions of moral superiority.

If you assume that you know relatively less than you think you do and that there is more knowledge than you are aware of, you will usually be correct.

Why does it happen? Because it happens. Roll the bones.

Super interesting! seems like an updated version of the Demon-haunted world.

I had to bail. Too black and white thinking for me. Life has many shades of grey; Science can’t prove everything (yet).

Yep. Shit happens!

When I'm sleep deprived, I hear voices in air conditioners, fans and heaters. Once, I heard a Russian choir in a heater after 36 hours of no sleep.

What gorilla?

Currently in a section about pseudoscience, and what science is and is not. I’m on a mission to better develop my filter of new information.

Memory is not a reliable thing. It can even be dangerously wrong.

A lot of info told in a clear easy to consume way. A lot of it is stuff I've heard before, but its the kind of basics that need to be covered in this kind of book. I'm not sure if it's a great intro to skeptical thinking tho