Through The Meta

We humans are insatiably curious. Our brains actively and passively hunger for information. It’s often this very trait that leaves it...

Cultivating a realistic view of the world is one of the most positive things you can do for yourself and those around you. I’m often...

It’s seen as negative in many ways but criticising wrong ideas is as important as just trying to be ‘right’. As a non-expert and not a...

Science is about nature. It’s natural, but closer to natural than our minds alone would be able to get. It often evokes in people’s heads...

A necessary tool in the scepticism kit is prior plausibility (or probability). I’ve mentioned it before, but not sure I’ve explained it...

Why do I harp on and on about logic, critical thinking, and pseudoscience? You might find it as pedantic and nitpicking as one might...

Deferring to expertise is not being a ‘sheeple’. How can we tell apart who is a reliable expert from an unreliable one?

Science communication can do without 'placeholder truths'.

I’ve seen so many anti-vax talking heads, social media martyrs and the like, using the double edged logical fallacy that we should be...

While casually reading a thread in a comments section of the James Webb Space Telescope page, I saw a clear example of a logical fallacy...

It’s peak time for the yearly entourage of NY posts, where we collectively condemn the last 12 months and look forward to the next 12 as...

I thought I’d give a quick and simplified primer on what placebos actually are, and what their function, purpose, and use is in science....

This is an exercise in critical thinking and reasoning. David Gorski is a brilliant doctor and scientist, and a phenomenal communicator...

A deconstruction of what logical inconsistencies are used by one commenter.