Dr. Stefan T. SiegelApr 10

Busting myths? You might be doing it wrong.

#Prebunking and #Debunking can backfire—unless you follow evidence-informed strategies.

New article / preprint (soon in Skeptical Inquirer):
đź”— https://doi.org/10.58079/13lyr
🛠️ Mythbusting = science + craft + art.

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Boosting Facts and Busting Myths about Mythbusting

What if much of what you think you know about mythbusting is wrong? Understanding pitfalls to mythbusting can help you in deliberately using more effective strategies for dealing with misinformation and avoiding unintended reinforcement of questionable or even false beliefs.

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WIST Quotations has moved!Apr 11, 2024

A quotation from Nietzsche, Friedrich:

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In the end, what are man’s truths? His irrefutable errors.

[Was sind denn zuletzt die Wahrheiten des Menschen? — Es sind die unwiderlegbaren Irrthümer des Menschen.]
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https://wist.info/nietzsche-friedrich/68515/

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The Gay Science [Die fröhliche Wissenschaft], Book 3, § 265 (1882) [tr. Hill (2018)] - Nietzsche, Friedrich | WIST Quotations

In the end, what are man's truths? His irrefutable errors. [Was sind denn zuletzt die Wahrheiten des Menschen? -- Es sind die unwiderlegbaren Irrthümer des Menschen.] Also known as La Gaya Scienza, The Joyful Wisdom, or The Joyous Science. (Source (German)). Alternate translations: But what after all are man's truths?…

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A quotation from Augustine of Hippo:

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You can see how infinitely laborious and fruitless it would be to try to refute every objection they offer, when they have resolved never to think before they speak provided that somehow or other they contradict our arguments.
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https://wist.info/augustine-of-hippo/66480/

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City of God [De Civitate Dei], Book 2, ch. 1 (2.1) (AD 412-416) [tr. Bettenson (1972)] - Augustine of Hippo | WIST Quotations

You can see how infinitely laborious and fruitless it would be to try to refute every objection they offer, when they have resolved never to think before they speak provided that somehow or other they contradict our arguments. [Quorum dicta contraria si totiens uelimus refellere, quotiens obnixa fronte statuerint non…

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ROBERT LINDSAY | SEPT 25, 2010
Tiki-Tiki Has 250 Words?

https://archive.is/btT3C

#TakiTaki #level340 #selo340 #nimi340 #minilang #toki_lili
#pidgin #selo250 #level250 #refutation

Tiki-Tiki Has 250 Words? | Beyond Highbrow - Robert Lindsay

Repost from the old site. Forget it. Via Marilyn Vos Savant in Parade Magazine, we are told that Tiki-Tiki, otherwise known as Sranan Togo, a creole with 100,000 native speakers and many more second languages speakers on Suriname, has the smallest vocabulary of any known language - with only 250 words. This claim is credulously…

Chris WhiteMay 25, 2019
Rapture Imminence Refuted https://peertube.video/videos/watch/36fd68ed-285c-4fef-8c64-083c74aa1947
Rapture Imminence Refuted

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