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“We tell stories to create impressions of ourselves in the eyes of others.”
Carl T. Bergstrom, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

“adequate bullshit detection is essential for the survival of liberal democracy.”
Carl T. Bergstrom, Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World

Daniel Loxton
“The practice of making claims that appear to be scientific, but do not actually follow the scientific method of testability and falsification of hypotheses, is usually called pseudoscience.”
Daniel Loxton, Abominable Science!: Origins of the Yeti, Nessie, and Other Famous Cryptids

“Those who believe that the End of Days is just around the corner have no reason to be concerned about matters like climate change, groundwater depletion, or loss of biodiversity.3 If there is no future, conservation of any kind is, paradoxically, wasteful.”
Marcia Bjornerud, Timefulness: How Thinking Like a Geologist Can Help Save the World

Lee McIntyre
“If the scientific attitude were just a matter of how one feels about whether one cares about evidence, it would not be possible to differentiate between the genuinely earnest person who is searching for a way to test their beliefs against experience versus the ideologues who are deluded into thinking that they care about evidence merely because they cherry pick facts that confirm their prior beliefs.”
Lee McIntyre, The Scientific Attitude: Defending Science from Denial, Fraud, and Pseudoscience

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