A listing of 35 news and opinion articles we found interesting and shared on social media during the past week: Sun, Jan 21, 2024 thru Sat, Jan 27, 2024.
Story of the week
Based on impressions and reactions, Melanie Trecek King s article Give Science Denial the FLICC re-posted from her Thinking is Power website won the title of Story of the week hands down. It was the best-performing post on our Facebook page and by far the most often liked and reposted toot on Mastodon!
This is a re-post from the Thinking is Power website maintained by Melanie Trecek-King where she regularly writes about many aspects of critical thinking in an effort to provide accessible and engaging critical thinking information to the general public. Please see this overview to find links to other reposts from Thinking is Power.
The year 2021 was a rather cranky one for our team! For one, quite some research was cranked out - i.e. published - by team members and for another, a particular Cranky Uncle started to make the rounds throughout the year. As in previous recaps, this one is divided into several sections:
There are so many misconceptions about consensus in science: What is a consensus? Does science work via consensus? To answer these and many other questions, Melanie Trecek-King - who runs the Thinking is Power website - talked with John Cook about the scientific consensus in general and about his study finding 97% consensus about human-cased climate change in particular.
During most of 2023 we highlighted one updated rebuttal per week, output from our quite productive Rebuttal Update Factory. Cranky Uncle learned a few new languages during the year and we could add several handbook translations. But there was a lot more to keep us busy during the year! As in previous recaps, this one is divided into several sections: