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Melanie Trecek-King: Evaluating Scientific Claims
Episode 336

Melanie Trecek-King: Evaluating Scientific Claims

The world's information is available to us at our fingertips. How do we recognize good sources and evaluate scientific claims? Melanie Trecek-King describes her tool kit for critical thinking.

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Show Notes

We are bombarded with information, but do we know what sources to trust and how to evaluate specific claims?  Melanie Tercek-King joins the podcast to discuss some fundamentals of critical thinking, and implement her tool kit to evaluate which claims have merit, and which might be best disregarded. 

Topics

critical thinkingskepticismevaluation of claimsscientific thinkinglogicreason