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This article is about people who are otherwise reasonable who have managed to compartmentalize one issue that is immune from critical thought.

Some poor, phone-less fool is probably sitting next to a waterfall somewhere totally unaware of how angry and scared he's supposed to be.

I came across this "white fragility" quiz and, as a white person, I decided to take it and share my answers with you. You're welcome.

What if you learned that you were manipulated into holding certain beliefs about and changing your behavior in regards to the Coronavirus?...

We all know that person. They are arrogant, abrasive, and don't possess one iota of diplomacy—or even if they do, they have chosen not to exercise any with us.

It is understandable how increasing numbers of known cases can be worrisome if not terrifying. At first glance, these numbers appear to represent the number...

Scammers and con-artists are all over the Internet. Not all scams are easy to spot—at least not at first...

The analogy one of the most useful tools in argumentation as well as one of the most helpful aids in effective reasoning. It allows us to compare something ...

Dr. Wayne W. Dyer wrote, "When given the choice between being right or being kind, choose kind." I say,...

Reductio Ad Consequentia is the use of a rule to support a position without realizing that the same rule would require that support for other positions...

This is a response to the abortion argument by Patrick S. Tomlinson and the response by Ben Shapiro.

The interesting thing about conspiracy theories is that some of them are actually true. This gives all conspiracy theories a hint of legitimacy in that no matte

A trick of the presuppositionalists is to hold others to impossible standards while using special pleading to excuse themselves from such justification.

Our passions, desires, and biases (i.e., emotions) can be so powerful that it can make us believe that what is clearly true to others, is clearly false to us.

This exchange is ripe with fallacious reasoning—at least the response is. This is often what happends when emotion or idiology trumps reason...

There is a disturbing trend in the social justice movement where science, data, facts, and reason are sacrificed for ideology. Critics of the social justice mov

Uncomfortable Idea: Interpreting feedback or an argument that refutes your ideas as evidence for your ideas, is a flaw in reasoning similar to that of...

In the first version of the book, I wrote an article about giving the winner of the presidential election a chance and supporting him or her no matter who...

I was six years old when I involuntarily chased my first alien spaceship. Wait, perhaps you need a little context to this story before I jump right into it.

Uncomfortable Idea: If you are past your mid-twenties and engaging in sexual activity with people younger than their mid-twenties, you are likley, knowingly...

Uncomfortable Idea: We should not treat mental illness like physical illness.

Uncomfortable Idea: Equity is synonymous with fairness, but not with wealth distribution or giving people who don't have a lot of stuff, free stuff...

Uncomfortable Idea: Allowing private businesses to discriminate is not as horrible as it sounds.

Uncomfortable Idea: If atheists are wrong, according to some Christian beliefs, they will be tortured for all eternity.

Uncomfortable Idea: In our efforts to save the sick, we are creating generations of people who are more likely to have genetically health-related issues.