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George Styles

George Styles

It’s the work of gods, ghosts, and spirits!”

The gap-filling fallacy is perhaps the fallacy that speaks about the human mind the most. When humans witness or experience something they…

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George Styles

The Secret Ingredient for Solid Brainwashing — Cognitive Dissonance

If you want to be sure that your brainwashing scheme is going to have a solid hold on your targets, then what you need to induce in your…

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George Styles

The Dunning-Kruger effect — Why most people will always have to learn the hard way if they’ll ever…

Perhaps the greatest fuel and impetus behind all armchair experts, the Dunning-Kruger effect is perhaps the most “up and in your face” of…

Aug 7

Aug 7

George Styles

“I’m a leader, dammit!” — The false-uniqueness effect and how no one knows that they do this.

So, before we begin,

Aug 5

Aug 5

George Styles

The Illusory Truth Effect — The Life-Force of Religion

Before we begin:

Aug 4

Aug 4

George Styles

Obscurantism and the Church: The Jedi mind-trick equivalent of “There is no biology to see here.”

So, before we start, what exactly is “Obscurantism?”

Aug 2

Aug 2

George Styles

“Lizard people are everywhere, hijacking everything!

We could say “Strange times we live in,” but surely, have humans ever really been any better?

Aug 1

Aug 1

George Styles

“But I have my truth, so gravity isn’t the same for me!”

So, before we start, here is what Relativist Fallacy is:

Jul 31

Jul 31

George Styles

“Will the real Christ Jesus, please stand up?” — A lesson in Special Pleading fallacy.

So, the special pleading fallacy is the following:

Jul 30

Jul 30

George Styles

The In-group/out-group bias and a great modern example of where it occurs.

So, before we begin, the in-group/out-group bias is:

Jul 26

Jul 26

George Styles

George Styles

Skeptic extraordinaire. Pushing back against the Idiocracy. Critical thinking, logic, philosophy, science. Ph.D. in Biochemistry.

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