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If your employer slaps you on your cheek, offer the other one.


Main page of the International Journal of Innovative Research in Medical Science has a spelling error. Not an important study or an important "journal."




Proof? Show your work.


Pseudoscience has run amok.


I do not know what else you would expect from Michael Crichton.


one word: teleportation with quantum supercomputer


Downvoted because you didn't say AI even once


fair


Not thinking has never worked well.


I taught Informal and formal fallacies as part of my history classes. While formal and informal fallacies are an important first step, you should consider taking a collegiate-level logic course. Of course, one may study on his own, if you can focus and set aside time to do so; but a rigorous classroom course improves one's ability to transfer the nuances of logic to real life.


Interesting! What kind of history class was it, that would include studying logical fallacies?

The application to real life is the most important step, I think. I guess that makes me a pragmatist.


First- and second-level American History. Each class succeeding year, I suspect, some of the students took the course just to sit in on the fallacies section. We used David Hackett Fischer's Historian's Fallacies and Copi's text to narrow some of the fallacies more precisely to history throughout the history course.


Given that 60% of the American population reads at eight-grade level or below, and that 20% of the American population is illiterate, this is no surprise.


Get a good grammar textbook (several available to buy) or buy the Chicago Manual of Style. These will help you learn grammar, spelling, and puncuation instead of relying on software.


I second this! Excellent advice.


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