
Is Reason Under Siege in Today's World?
WSJ Opinion: Free Expression
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The Tools of Rationality Should Be Part of Our School Curriculum
The tools of rationality should be part of our school curriculum. Arguing from anecdote instead of from data is an invalid form of argument. People should be inoculated against these fallacies starting in school media literacy. The only way that we imperfect humans can bumble our way towards the truth is in institutions that have rules for Quashing people's biases and try to let the truth emerge from debate discussion empirical testing.
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