About Me:

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I’m a self-identified critical thinker, but long before I knew what that meant or what the Skepticism was, I had a pretty good inbuilt nonsense detector. I’ve always had an affinity for critical thinking and logic – but have often felt alone in that. I was (and still am) frequently the 'villain'; nobody wants to hear their beliefs questioned. When topics like science or philosophy came up, I gravitated towards those and wanted to dig deeper – and that is likely because they are inseparable from critical thinking and logic.

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I'm not an expert critical thinker (I doubt that anyone is) but the spark for it always came naturally to me. My thoughts were often an ill-fitting piece in the jigsaw of daily social life. It frustrated me for years, and I didn’t know how to deal with it – the social pressures, awkwardness, mental isolation. In recent years I’ve started to understand what it means and that it’s actually a gift, not a burden.

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To be able to question our own logic and analyse our own emotions and thought processes is a privilege. Used correctly, it’s the best way we can build bridges, progress as a society, and establish knowledge; the best way we can discern truth from fiction.

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I’m an average person at best, and I have no lifelong expertise of a professional field; but I have some fundamentally crucial (for ALL aspects of life) thinking skills which I continue to learn and build on. As such, I'm good at teasing apart reliable news and resources from misinformation, and I'm careful to vet it. I have an ability to recognise red flags and identify weaknesses in arguments when searching for truth. Through this blog I will continue to grow myself, sharpen my mind, and maybe others might learn something from it too.

 

I'd like to be able to guide others to adopt a logical and skeptical toolkit when navigating the world of daily pseudoscience, financial scams/grifters, conspiracy theories and public health concerns that we all must navigate. As such, I highly value well-reasoned arguments substantiated with evidence, intellectual honesty, and fair discourse.

 

About this blog:

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This is my personal space where my thoughts can be rendered into a coherent medium and refined, with due diligence, without pressures from time or people. I talk mainly about things I encounter in my personal life or online in the public domain and expand on them, to exercise my own critical thinking and sharpen my logic.

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I hope to become better at communicating concepts which come naturally to me in matters of skepticism, science, logic, and critical thinking; but I am bad at articulating them in real time conversations - especially when under social, emotional or time pressures.

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Secondarily, this blog is a small hub of science, skepticism, and critical thinking resources, with which I will aim to facilitate the communication of all kinds of topics that grab my attention. It is meant as an evolving signpost for reliable roads to real expertise, carefully vetted knowledge, and a basic-level entry point to honest and evidence-based inquiry.

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It is more an intermediary step in sourcing reliable science communication, while picking the low-hanging fruits of misinformation and flawed logic when I'm confident enough to do so myself. My writings are grounded in and substantiated by science, logic, and evidence, and vetted carefully using expert consensus where possible.

 

Disclaimer:

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This a personal blog, and while I form my opinions carefully and analytically, they should not be taken as a sole source for expert guidance or as an authoritative source of information. My own writings are my own thoughts and opinions, which I make efforts to substantiate with the relevant expert consensus of knowledge, links to tangible evidence-based resources where possible, and applied logic and critical thinking. When I point out anybody’s lack of credibility or support for their position, it’s not a personal attack for the sake of it, but an observation considering all surrounding evidence.

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Combat everyday misconceptions, wrong opinions where truth is concerned (yes, opinions are often wrong), scams, common myths and misinformation with evidence and logic - not with fallacies and personal attacks. To use the latter is to mirror the former!