{"id":3667,"date":"2024-07-29T02:58:45","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T02:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/?p=3667"},"modified":"2025-04-08T04:50:42","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T04:50:42","slug":"believing-bullshit-how-not-to-get-sucked-into-an-intellectual-black-hole-by-stephen-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/believing-bullshit-how-not-to-get-sucked-into-an-intellectual-black-hole-by-stephen-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole by Stephen Law"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

“Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole”<\/strong> by Stephen Law provides readers with tools to recognize and avoid irrational thinking and deceptive arguments. Law identifies various techniques and fallacies that can lead individuals into intellectual traps, such as confirmation bias, pseudoscience, and slippery slope arguments. The book aims to empower readers to critically assess information, foster skepticism, and promote logical reasoning to avoid being misled by false or manipulative beliefs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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  3. Skepticism<\/strong>: Encourages a skeptical approach to evaluating information.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  4. Avoiding Bias<\/strong>: Discusses how to recognize and counteract confirmation bias.<\/li>\n\n\n\n
  5. Empowerment<\/strong>: Aims to empower readers to think independently and critically.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n\n\n\n
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    “Believing Bullshit: How Not to Get Sucked into an Intellectual Black Hole” by Stephen Law provides readers with tools to recognize and avoid irrational thinking and deceptive arguments. Law identifies various techniques and fallacies that can lead individuals into intellectual traps, such as confirmation bias, pseudoscience, and slippery slope arguments. The book aims to empower […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3668,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[851,45],"tags":[614,58,617,611,613,616,612,56,53],"class_list":["post-3667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-books","category-philosophy","tag-confirmation-bias","tag-critical-thinking","tag-deceptive-arguments","tag-fallacies","tag-intellectual-traps","tag-logical-reasoning","tag-pseudoscience","tag-rationalism","tag-skepticism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4192,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3667\/revisions\/4192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3668"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theglobalhumanist.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}