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There is a lot of legitimate concern over the net effects of students using AI to do their school work. If you let AI do your writing, then you will not learn how to write, for example. Or worse – if you let AI think for you, then you will not learn how to think. I have spoken with many teachers at many levels about this and they range from those who take diligent steps to minimize AI “cheating”,

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Average rating: 4.29 · 8,320 ratings · 1,022 reviews · 23 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe: How to Know What's Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake 4.39 avg rating — 5,037 ratings — published 2018 — 26 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Your Deceptive Mind: A Scientific Guide to Critical Thinking Skills 4.23 avg rating — 1,313 ratings — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Skeptics' Guide to the Future: What Yesterday's Science and Science Fiction Tell Us About the World of Tomorrow by Steven Novella, Jay Novella (With), Bob Novella (With) 4.08 avg rating — 1,146 ratings — published 2022 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Medical Myths, Lies, and Half-Truths 4.20 avg rating — 392 ratings — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Skeptic's Guide to Alternative Medicine 3.97 avg rating — 271 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Science and the Supernatural 3.59 avg rating — 27 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Science-Based Medicine: Guide to Critical Thinking 4.10 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Understanding the Flaws and Fabrications of Memory 3.85 avg rating — 20 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Science-Based Medicine Guide to Herbs, Supplements and Nutrition (Science-Based Medicine Anthology Book 6) 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 2013 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Science-Based Medicine: Guide to Acupuncture and "Eastern" Medicine 4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings — published 2013	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“What do you think science is? There's nothing magical about science. It is simply a systematic way for carefully and thoroughly observing nature and using consistent logic to evaluate results. Which part of that exactly do you disagree with? Do you disagree with being thorough? Using careful observation? Being systematic? Or using consistent logic?”
― Steven Novella

tags: logic, science, science-vs-religion, skeptics-guide-to-the-universe

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“Questioning our own motives, and our own process, is critical to a skeptical and scientific outlook. We must realize that the default mode of human psychology is to grab onto comforting beliefs for purely emotional reasons, and then justify those beliefs to ourselves with post-hoc rationalizations." - Steven Novella”
― Steven Novella

tags: science, skepticism

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“History is strewn with ideas that were intuitive and made sense at the time, but were also hopelessly wrong.”
― Steven Novella

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