by J. Jerrald Hayes | May 24, 2020 | • Politics, Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking, The 2020 Presidential Race, The Republicans
We Need to Speak Honestly About the GOP’s Evolution Into a Conspiracy Cult One of the challenges in analyzing modern American politics is accurately describing the Republican Party without seeming unserious and hyperbolic. Major publications are understandably...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 1, 2020 | Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking, Skepticism
Thomas Westbrook speaking at the LogiCal-LA conference in Los Angeles in 2019 discusses ways to improve science communication in the war on...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 31, 2020 | Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking
A few year ago now reading Daniel Kahneman’s seminal book Thinking, Fast and Slow changed the way I looked at everything around me. It was so important I read or listened to it three times and even bought several of the summary and analysis books too to act as study...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 30, 2020 | Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking, Religion
From the: Holy Koolaid channel…
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Jan 3, 2020 | • Politics, Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking
From the beginning of Kurt Andersen’s (Wikipedia & KurtAndersen.com) lecture: Back thirty years before he was President in United States, twenty years before there was a United States, John Adams as you may know served as the defense lawyer for the British...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Oct 18, 2019 | • Politics, Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking, Science
Why Are Conservatives More Susceptible to Believing Lies? Many conservatives have a loose relationship with facts. The right-wing denial of what most people think of as accepted reality starts with political issues: As recently as 2016, 45 percent of Republicans still...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Apr 5, 2018 | Irrational Thinking, Pseudoscience
Ignorance and stupidity are not the same things but both seem to be at time embodied in the minds of flat-earthers, A short collection of videos I recently watched on engaging with flat-earthers…(This guy Victor from Brooklyn in videos one, two, and three is...
by J. Jerrald Hayes | Nov 26, 2017 | Cognitive Bias, Critical Thinking, Irrational Thinking
Why incompetent people often think they’re actually the best Maybe you’ve experienced this at school or work before: Dealing with someone who thinks he’s much better at his job than he really is. This can not only be really annoying, but it can lead...
