[Tip] Steven Novella, Critical Thinking course

**Diane** · 03-03-2012, 07:40 PM

For only $60, you can download a 24-lecture video series by Steven Novella on critical thinking, here.
I saw it announced, here, just now.

I like how the lectures are organized (menu on right). We've dealt with most if not all of these topics already, as they pertain to manual therapy, but this looks like a very nice well-organized set indeed, and presents us with what might be a way to organize and systematize our threads better. Some day. Maybe.

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Course Lecture Titles

24 Lectures
30 minutes / lecture

The Necessity of Thinking about Thinking
The Neuroscience of Belief
Errors of Perception
Flaws and Fabrications of Memory
Pattern Recognition—Seeing What’s Not There
Our Constructed Reality
The Structure and Purpose of Argument
Logic and Logical Fallacies
Heuristics and Cognitive Biases
Poor at Probability—Our Innate Innumeracy
Toward Better Estimates of What’s Probable
Culture and Mass Delusions
Philosophy and Presuppositions of Science
Science and the Supernatural
Varieties and Quality of Scientific Evidence
Great Scientific Blunders
Science versus Pseudoscience
The Many Kinds of Pseudoscience
The Trap of Grand Conspiracy Thinking
Denialism—Rejecting Science and History
Marketing, Scams, and Urban Legends
Science, Media, and Democracy
Experts and Scientific Consensus
Critical Thinking and Science in Your Life

**byronselorme** · 03-03-2012, 08:19 PM

I enjoyed his medical myths series!

The course are generally well laid out and the supplemental printed material make a great reference resource instead of having to find which track you heard it on. (a pet peeve of mine with audiobooks)

Thanks for linking this Diane. I can never hear enough critical thinking resources.

**amacs** · 03-03-2012, 08:29 PM

I find myself in a quandary, I would love to do this but I already have enough on my plate, in fact its spilling over ... do I ... don't I ... do I ... don't I

ANdy

**byronselorme** · 03-03-2012, 09:31 PM

I hear you on that ANdy,

I have so many books, audiobooks, videos etc in cue. Then Barrett or Diane mention something and it jumps cue.

Really if I never added another thing I would still have a good 2 - 3 years of material with just what I have already.

And never mind the TED lectures, YouTube videos, and Soma resources.

**amacs** · 04-03-2012, 02:11 AM

Byron sometimes I feel like I am bound to some Sisyphean task - but who would be my Hades amongst this underworld of the dead?

regard

ANdy the mythical ( or is that mystical?)

note to self - go to bed tonight dammit!

JoshV · 04-03-2012, 05:10 AM

Amacs and Byron - amen.

03-03-2012, 08:19 PM	#2
byronselorme Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Hamilton, Ontario Age: 39 Posts: 1,367 Thanks: 722 Thanked 280 Times in 152 Posts	I enjoyed his medical myths series! The course are generally well laid out and the supplemental printed material make a great reference resource instead of having to find which track you heard it on. (a pet peeve of mine with audiobooks) Thanks for linking this Diane. I can never hear enough critical thinking resources. __________________ Byron Selorme - Science Based Yoga Educator Shavasana Yoga Center "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool" Richard Feynman

03-03-2012, 08:29 PM	#3
amacs A bear of little brain Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: UK Posts: 1,396 Thanks: 174 Thanked 255 Times in 128 Posts	I find myself in a quandary, I would love to do this but I already have enough on my plate, in fact its spilling over ... do I ... don't I ... do I ... don't I ANdy __________________ "Here is Edward Bear coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it." A.A. Milne

03-03-2012, 09:31 PM	#4
byronselorme Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Hamilton, Ontario Age: 39 Posts: 1,367 Thanks: 722 Thanked 280 Times in 152 Posts	I hear you on that ANdy, I have so many books, audiobooks, videos etc in cue. Then Barrett or Diane mention something and it jumps cue. Really if I never added another thing I would still have a good 2 - 3 years of material with just what I have already. And never mind the TED lectures, YouTube videos, and Soma resources. __________________ Byron Selorme - Science Based Yoga Educator Shavasana Yoga Center "The first principle is that you must not fool yourself - and you are the easiest person to fool" Richard Feynman

04-03-2012, 02:11 AM	#5
amacs A bear of little brain Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: UK Posts: 1,396 Thanks: 174 Thanked 255 Times in 128 Posts	Byron sometimes I feel like I am bound to some Sisyphean task - but who would be my Hades amongst this underworld of the dead? regard ANdy the mythical ( or is that mystical?) note to self - go to bed tonight dammit! __________________ "Here is Edward Bear coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it." A.A. Milne Last edited by amacs; 04-03-2012 at 02:14 AM.

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JoshV Junior Member Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: New Mexico Posts: 10 Thanks: 7 Thanked 0 Times in 0 Posts	Amacs and Byron - amen.

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