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Over 250 Cognitive biases, fallacies, and errors

September 21, 2021

Over 250 Cognitive biases, fallacies, and errors Preface. All of us, no matter how much we’ve read about critical thinking, or have a PhD in science, and are even on the lookout for our biases and fallacies can still fall prey to them, after all, we’re only human. But false belief systems get dangerous when […]

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The Most Powerful Force on Earth

May 12, 2021

The Most Powerful Force on Earth “If a writer is so cautious that he never writes anything that cannot be criticized, he will never write anything that can be read. If you want to help other people you have got to make up your mind to write things that some men will condemn.” —Thomas Merton The […]

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The Groupthink Pandemic

July 11, 2020

The Groupthink Pandemic Groupthink is all around us. Decision-making in government, in the media and at work. It’s slowly killing the world. In the background of the most important events, the Covid-19 response and increasing tension and conflict in the world, it might be worth looking through some of this in a bit more detail. […]

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Why Critical Thinking is Inseparable From Freedom

August 31, 2019

Why Critical Thinking is Inseparable From Freedom Click here to listen to an audio recording of this entire article. Critical thinking is inseparable from freedom as much as gold is inseparable from sound money and sound banking. In fact, one can consider this article as the perfect companion to the article I wrote ten years ago […]

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Technology: Distracting, Disturbing, Deceiving & Deluding Ourselves to Death

January 28, 2019

TECHNOLOGY: DISTRACTING, DISTURBING, DECEIVING & DELUDING OURSELVES TO DEATH “What Huxley teaches is that in the age of advanced technology, spiritual devastation is more likely to come from an enemy with a smiling face than from one whose countenance exudes suspicion and hate. In the Huxleyan prophecy, Big Brother does not watch us, by his […]

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Systems Thinking, Critical Thinking, and Personal Resilience

May 24, 2018

Systems Thinking, Critical Thinking, and Personal Resilience As a writer focused on the global sustainability crisis, I’m often asked how to deal with the stress of knowing—knowing, that is, that we humans have severely overshot Earth’s long-term carrying capacity, making a collapse of both civilization and Earth’s ecological systems likely; knowing that we are depleting […]

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How to Use Critical Thinking to Spot False Climate Claims

February 11, 2018

How to Use Critical Thinking to Spot False Climate Claims Much of the public discussion about climate science consists of a stream of assertions. The climate is changing or it isn’t; carbon dioxide causes global warming or it doesn’t; humans are partly responsible or they are not; scientists have a rigorous process of peer review […]

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The American Story Is A Mystery Only to Economists

March 14, 2015

The American Story Is A Mystery Only to Economists I think I should accept that I will never in my life cease to be amazed at the capacity of the human being to spin a story to his/her own preferences, rather than take it simply for what it is. Your run of the mill journalist […]

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THE DEATH OF HOPE AND BELIEF

March 9, 2015

THE DEATH OF HOPE AND BELIEF As much as we would like to ‘believe’ we are all clear headed, logical individuals who only deal with verified ‘facts’ while shunning hearsay, rumor, ‘hope’ and ‘belief’, the reality is to some degree or another we integrate all of the above, and so much more, into our personal […]

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