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It goes without saying that making up your own facts ruins people's lives, but we're going to keep saying it anyway.

Misrepresenting the findings of a scientific paper should earn you a swift kick in your gonads. We volunteer as tributes.

The media needs to stop catering to both confirmation bias and the temper-tantrums of those who abuse it.

A magnified minority is a type of bullshit in which a group of people on the fringes of an area of expertise is gathered to disingenuously misrepresent or undermine the consensus of that field. Here's how that works.

If you feel like it's getting harder and harder to keep up with the stream of BS, that's because it is, and that's on purpose.

If you believe the world is "just", in its very nature, you have no personal responsibility to pursue making it better.

People who tell you not to argue with idiots are probably idiots. Here's a handy guide on how to do it properly without being an idiot yourself.

Save your face by sitting on your palms while reading this. Scroll with your feet or something.

The saddest thing about a conspiracy mindset is the part where imagining everyone is out to get you implies your life matters to someone else.

If the fates of the Harvey Weinsteins and Louis C.K.s of the world didn't convince you, maybe Science will.

No, a screenshot of "Steve Rogers" in Times Square in Captain America does not show evidence for a planned pandemic. Of course it doesn't. But this ding-dong who got dunked on sure thought so.

If you've never even read the abstract from David Dunning and Justin Kruger's "Unskilled and Unaware of it" but still insist on referring to the Dunning-Kruger Effect to try and dunk on someone, there's a good chance you fall under its purview.