About Series

  • Provides some understanding as to why many people put more trust in intuitive / dogmatic beliefs than in evidence-based ones*
  • Identifies probable specific misbeliefs held by many US citizens
  • Summarizes some offsetting, provisional scientific truths from the natural sciences and key evidence supporting them**
  • Is based on a variety of sources, including books, encyclopedias, news articles, scientific papers, governmental reports, skeptical websites, polls, etc. More than 6000 sources were collected and inspected in the course of research
  • Contents of presentations meant to serve as brief introductions to topics touched on
  • Copyrighted material use assumed to fall under fair-use doctrine
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*That tendency being reflected in Series title "Huminanity" (contraction of "Human Inanity").  **Scientific truths also can be found in certain social sciences (e.g., cognitive science, touched on in the Misbeliefs presentation)