The Debunking Handbook Explains the Art of Shooting Down
Misinformation  The Skeptical Science web site works to debunk
the critics of global warming, and works hard to do so. A new
handbook put out by the site, The Debunking Handbook, is a
veritable how-to guide to the practice of shooting down any
misinformation, whether a global science issue, or your
company's belief that "password123" is a valid password.  In
other words, you can glean some really helpful lessons from The
Debunking Handbook that you can apply far beyond the endless
back-and-forth of global warming discussion. Whatever
misinformation you want to dispel—in an email, in a blog post,
in a meeting—you need to, for example, avoid the Familiarity
Backfire Effect, where mentioning the misinformation
specifically only lends to people becoming more familiar with
that myth.   The Debunking Handbook is a free, short PDF from
Skeptical Science that's a helpful weapon in any war against
impractical myths.  The Debunking Handbook [PDF link] |
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