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Old 09-26-2024, 05:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Ptmcbriz View Post
You use critical thinking skills for reasonableness. Otherwise, you’ll believe in nothing and that destroys a society. No matter what in life there are mistakes. Rarely perfection. You don’t base your beliefs on one person, one article, one of anything. You read a lot on the subject from many sources and usually the similarities between them all give you a reasonable truth.
Not entirely accurate, and can create an agenda-driven narrative that you believe, because "many" sources are telling you the same thing.

The critical thinking part of your comment is THE #1 most important part. That's what helps you figure out what to look for in the first place.

Example

Non-critical-thinking person wants to know if the rumor he heard about vaccines is true. He runs a search for "vaccine hoax"

And of course he will end up with pages of search results that insist vaccines are a hoax. That's because - that is what he asked for.

Critical-thinking person wants to get more information about the same thing. He runs a search for "vaccines medicine science"

and finds a plethora of returns on a vast array of sub-topics about vaccines, some of which will say it's a hoax, some of which will say it's legit. He'll completely discount any result that doesn't come from an actual medical source, and check at LEAST the summaries of the first dozen that are left. If there's a term he doesn't understand or hasn't ever heard before, he'll run a search on that term and learn what he can about it.

He'll then read thoroughly some more actual medical sourced results, and check THEIR bibliographies and footnotes. He'll dive deep into the medical rabbit hole to find as many facts as he can about it

And THEN he'll conclude that no, the rumor is false, or yes, the rumor is true.