The Skeptator3d ago

"The trouble with having an open mind is that people come along and put things in it. It’s like when someone puts a Dumpster at the side of the road because they’re moving house and want to get rid of all the junk they’ve accumulated over the years. The next thing they know, the whole neighborhood’s thrown their junk in, and the Dumpster’s full."

John Grant, Debunk It! How to Stay Sane in a World of Misinformation

Show threadThe Skeptator3d ago
A 2010 Gallup poll of US adults found that they ranked climate change as the least worrying of eight environmental concerns. Also in 2010, a poll done by the University of Texas and the Texas Tribune newspaper found that only about one-third of Texas adults knew that humans evolved from earlier species. The list of such poll results could go on indefinitely, but you can see the gloomy picture they paint.
Show threadThe Skeptator3d ago
About 38 percent of American adults think the whole Bible, including the Old Testament, was written after Jesus’s death; three-quarters think that the phrase “God helps those who help themselves” comes from the Bible (it doesn’t); 16 percent think the Book of Thomas is in the Bible (it’s in fact in the Apocrypha); and—my favorite!—12 percent think Joan of Arc was Noah’s wife.
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@skeptator ich habe gerade versucht die Geschichte mit Jean D'Arc zu verifizieren. Es scheint auf ein Buch aus den Neunzigern zurückzugehen, dass sich im Archive nicht gut durchsuchen lässt. Daher lässt sich erstmal nichts zur Methodik sagen. Wäre aber spannend, wie es heute aussieht.
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Show threadThe Skeptator2d ago

@elektrobier Ah, interessant. Das schaue ich mir auch mal an. Ich dachte, das wäre komplett frei erfunden.

Ich freue mich gerade sehr, dich wiedergefunden zu haben!