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Climatology Versus Pseudoscience: exposing the failed predictions of global warming skeptics by 
Critical Thinking, Science, and Pseudoscience by 
Errors, Blunders and Lies: How to Tell the Difference by 
How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter About Visual Information by 
Proofiness: how you're being fooled by the numbers by 
Pseudoscience: The Conspiracy Against Science by 
The Pseudoscience Wars: Immanuel Velikovsky and the birth of the modern fringe by 
Rigor Mortis: How Sloppy Science Creates Worthless Cures, Crushes Hope, and Wastes Billions by 
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Searching for information about the author or organization responsible for the website, article, or book is an excellent way of evaluating sources. This method is called lateral reading.
The four minute video "Lateral Reading" created by Robert Detmering, Amber Willenborg, and Terri Holtze from the University of Louisville Libraries gives great ideas on how to investigate author/producers. The UL website also has a nifty handout you may want to download.
A Rough Guide to Spotting Bad Science
Brunning, Andy. "A Rough Guide to Spotting Bad Science." Ci: Compound Interest, Andy Brunning/Compound Interest, 2017, www.compoundchem.com/2014/04/02/a-rough-guide-to-spotting-bad-science/. Accessed 7 Dec. 2017.
A Rough Guide to Types of Scientific Evidence
Brunning, Andy. "A Rough Guide to Types of Scientific Evidence." Ci: Compound Interest, Andy Brunning/Compound Interest, 2017, www.compoundchem.com/2015/04/09/scientific-evidence/. Accessed 7 Dec. 2017.
Critical Thinking, Science, and Pseudoscience: Why We Can't Trust Our Brains by This unique text for undergraduate courses teaches students to apply critical thinking skills across all academic disciplines by examining popularpseudoscientific claims through a multidisciplinary lens. Rather than merely focusing on critical thinking, the text incorporates the perspectives ofpsychology, biology, physics, medicine, and other disciplines to reinforce different categories of rational explanation. Accessible and engaging, itdescribes what critical thinking is, why it is important, and how to learn and apply skills that promote it. The text also examines why critical thinkingcan be difficult to engage in and explores the psychological and social reasons why people are drawn to and find credence in extraordinary claims. From alien abductions and psychic phenomena to strange creatures and unsupported alternative medical treatments, the text uses examples from a wide rangeof pseudoscientific fields and brings evidence from diverse disciplines to critically examine erroneous claims. Particularly timely is the text' sexamination of how, using the narrative of today' s ' culture wars, ' religion and culture impact science. The authors focus on how the human brain, rife withnatural biases, does not process information in a rational fashion, and the social factors that prevent individuals from gaining an unbiased, criticalperspective on information. Authored by a psychologist and a philosopher who have extensive experience teaching and writing on critical thinking andskeptical inquiry, this work will help students to strengthen their skills in reasoning and debate, become intelligent consumers of research, and makewell-informed choices as citizens. KEY FEATURES: Addresses the foundations of critical thinking and how to apply it through the popular activity of examining pseudoscience Explains why humans are vulnerable to pseudoscientific claims and how critical thinking can overcome fallacies and biases Reinforces critical thinking through multidisciplinary analyses of pseudoscience Enlightens using an engaging, entertaining approach Features teaching resources including an Instructor' s Guide and PowerPoint slidesClimatology Versus Pseudoscience: exposing the failed predictions of global warming skeptics by How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter About Visual Information by 
