Posts Tagged ‘critical thinking’
Don’t put it in your mouth?
by westwood It’s an unfortunate reality of our world that everyone has an agenda. No matter what you think you are getting for free, something… or someone… is being sold. That’s where the No Free Lunch movement comes in. What is that, you ask? It is a very well-intentioned movement in medicine to stop the [...]
Filed under: critical thinking, medical ethics | 18 Comments
Tags: big pharma, bribes, critical thinking, drug companies, medical ethics, no free lunch, philosophy, selling
Keep Plato out of your bedroom
by westwood. Do you remember a little post discussing why Jurgen Habermas might be useful in your bedroom? That was waaaay back, when gapingwhole was a twinkling little babe just past its inception (best movie of the year. Or perhaps The Kids Are All Right. Or 500 Days of Summer. Was that even this year? [...]
Filed under: critical thinking, hypocrisy, understanding | 5 Comments
Tags: conflict, critical thinking, debate, dialectic, habermas, hypocrisy, irrational, irrationality, love, movies, plato, questions, rational, rationality, reason, socrates, understanding
by westwood Critical thinking is something you should be doing all day, every day. Example: you read the news and find out that they have dramatically lowered the exercise standards in your country. Read between the lines (or just actually read the lines, screen-skimmers) and you will find that it is not because people grossly [...]
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Tags: agnostic, agnosticism, aliens, apocalypse, atheism, atheist, critical thinking, criticism, debate, exercise, fitness, wolves, zombies
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