Scientific Thinking

The great thing about science and the "scientific method" is that it does its best to correct for biases to approximate the objective reality of what you're testing. Once you have a good scientific foundation, you can apply it to all sorts of things and get to where we are today. WalterFStarbuck

Pseudoscience

People continue to believe in common pseudoscientific theories is because it’s easier for them to accept those theories, than to understand the scientific information which is used to debunk them.¹

• Psychological Science in the Public Interest: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/1529100612451018
• Personality and Social Psychology: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.01483/full
• Advances in Experimental Social Psychology: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S006526010639003X?via%3Dihub
• Cognitive Psychology: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0010028506000739?via%3Dihub

Cool Science

Videos

• The Brachistochrone - YouTube

Footnotes

1. One reason why people continue to believe in common pseudoscientific theories is because it’s easier for them to accept those theories, than to understand the scientific information which is used to debunk them. Accounting for this can help make debunking attempts more successful : r/science ↩