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Can you recognize bad thinking, manipulative advertising and tricky arguments when you see them?How about your kids - how will they know whether the memes they're seeing on social media are really true? Critical thinking is the most important skill you can have when you’re living in a world that seems to have lost its mind.Everyone out there is trying to tell you WHAT to think, I want to teach you HOW to think!In every episode, I’m exposing the logical fallacies & cognitive biases being used by...

Notable Guests

Jordan Peterson

Jordan Peterson49×

Jane Smith38×NNate O'Brien9×

Hank Green7×JJoshua Kaufman6×RRachel Simmons5×

Jordan Harbinger

Jordan Harbinger5×

George Orwell4×

Episodes (369)

119. The Rationalization Fallacy

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118. The Appeal to Common Belief Fallacy

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117. What to do when someone uses a fallacy in a conversation

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116. The Snow Job Fallacy

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Feb 13, 20236:40pending

115. The 'Two Wrongs Make a Right' Fallacy

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Feb 9, 20236:57pending

114. The Oversimplified Cause Fallacy

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Feb 7, 20238:52pending

113. The Ad Hoc Fallacy

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Feb 6, 20238:24pending

112. The 'If By Whiskey' Fallacy

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Feb 2, 20239:27pending

111. The Appeal to Privacy Fallacy

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Jan 31, 20237:29pending

110. The 'I'm Entitled to my own Opinion' Fallacy

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Jan 30, 20237:23pending

109. The 3 Laws of Logic, pt 3: The Law of the Excluded Middle

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Jan 26, 20237:52pending

108. The 3 Laws of Logic, pt 2: Law of Non-Contradiction

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Jan 24, 20237:41pending

107. The 3 Laws of Logic, pt 1: Law of Identity

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Jan 23, 202312:33pending

106. The Demonic Justification Fallacy

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Jan 19, 20238:11pending

105. 3 Steps to Crazy Good Thinking

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Jan 17, 202320:31pending

104. The Card Stacking Fallacy

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Jan 16, 20238:11pending

103. The Plain Folks Fallacy

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Jan 12, 20235:27pending

102. The Testimonial Fallacy

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Jan 10, 20238:01pending

101. The Big Lie Fallacy

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Jan 9, 20239:09pending

100. Artificial Intelligence & Losing our Ability to Think + Celebrating 100 Epi...

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Jan 5, 202318:11pending

99. The Transfer Fallacy

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98. The Glittering Generalities Fallacy

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Jan 2, 20239:00pending

97. The Fallacy of Ambiguity

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Dec 19, 20228:48pending

96. The Blind Loyalty Fallacy

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Dec 15, 20227:21pending

95. The Wicked Motive Fallacy

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Dec 13, 20228:26pending

94. The Noble Motive Fallacy

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Dec 12, 202210:13pending

93. Critical Thinking is Offensive: 4 hard truths you need to embrace to truly t...

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Dec 8, 20229:08pending

92. The Chronological Snobbery Fallacy

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Dec 6, 202210:20pending

91. The Appeal to Spite Fallacy

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90. The Nirvana Fallacy

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Nov 29, 20225:36pending

89. The Toupee Fallacy

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Nov 28, 20225:38pending

88. How well can you recognize the Fallacies when you see them?

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Nov 21, 20225:51pending

87. Whataboutism

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Nov 17, 20225:44pending

86. The Spotlight Fallacy

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Nov 15, 20225:51pending

85. The Sunk Cost Fallacy

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Nov 14, 20226:33pending

85. The Victim Fallacy

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Nov 10, 20226:36pending

83. The Relativist Fallacy

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Nov 8, 202210:08pending

82. The Psychologist’s Fallacy

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Nov 7, 20228:41pending

81. The Fallacy of Misleading Vividness

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Nov 3, 20227:16pending

80. The Fallacy of Presentism

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Nov 1, 20228:50pending

79. The Historian’s Fallacy

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Oct 31, 20227:03pending

78. The Non Sequitur Fallacy

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Oct 27, 20225:37pending

77. The Furtive Fallacy

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Oct 25, 20228:33pending

76. The Alphabet Soup Fallacy

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Oct 24, 20227:13pending

75. The Appeal to Ridicule Fallacy

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Oct 21, 20227:36pending

74. How to have a conversation with someone who believes differently than you: w...

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Oct 18, 202223:27pending

73. 4 Simple Tools for Brain Surgery: Part 4

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72. 4 Simple Tools for Brain Surgery: Part 3

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71. 4 Simple Tools for Brain Surgery: Part 2

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70. 4 Simple Tools for Brain Surgery: Part 1

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