Thinking Is Power @ThinkingPowers
Melanie Trecek-King. Science and critical thinking communicator. No longer active here. Please follow @ThinkingPowers on FB, IG, and TT. linktr.ee/thinkingispower Joined May 2020-
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@SusanGerbic @SkeptInquirer Thank you!
Melanie Trecek-King's excellent CSICon talk is out! youtu.be/QpEmDaoGHL0?si… @ThinkingPowers @SkeptInquirer
@CaulfieldTim @jonathanstea @StanKutcher @ScienceUpFirst @doritmi @STWorg @MediaSmarts @dr_andrealove It’s overwhelming.
Check out our latest Substack post, an interview with Melanie Trecek-King , creator of @ThinkingPowers and Education Director for the Mental Immunity Project open.substack.com/pub/mentalimmu…
I spent the last 7 weeks on the road… giving 20 presentations and workshops. I had a wonderful time, but it’s good to be home! (I missed Dmitri 😻) Newsapalooza in PA Williamsville School District in NY CSICon STANYS in New York @QCCornCON @NSTA @center4inquiry
Without an understanding of how our identities and worldviews can alter our standards of evidence, pseudoscience and science denial provide cover for what we want or don’t want to believe. Read more from @ThinkingPowers in @SkeptInquirer: ow.ly/7R1x50U5M71
My latest article, “Thinking Critically About Critical Thinking”, is out in @SkeptInquirer! skepticalinquirer.org/2024/10/thinki…
Carl Sagan is my hero. Happy birthday, Dr. Sagan. Thank you for everything you did for science and humanity.
Conspiratorial thinking isn’t the same as critical thinking. If our goal is to uncover real conspiracies, we need critical thinking, not conspiratorial thinking.
Thanks @critikids for the fun collab!
As @thinkingpowers writes, “Theory might win the prize for the most commonly misunderstood word in science. In everyday usage, a theory is a hunch. A guess. Pure speculation. For example, I have a theory about why my cat yells (sings?) at night — he’s calling on the spirits of
This is an excellent thread about common misconceptions about organic food.
Organic food is not grown without pesticides. Organic food is not healthier. Organic food is not better for the environment. Organic food can be worse ecologically - lower yield, more off-target pesticide impacts, more land use, more tillage = worse for the planet. 1/
@dr_andrealove @CaulfieldTim @jonathanstea @doritmi I love this!
@CaulfieldTim @dr_andrealove @jonathanstea @doritmi We adopted my Pumpkin the day after Thanksgiving in 2006. For years I made cat decorations in my pumpkins, but since we lost him a few years ago I still can’t bring myself to do it. That guy was the best.
@kevinfolta Wow. I’m so sorry.
@davidmcraney @center4inquiry @neiltyson @ProfBrianCox I FINALLY GET TO MEET YOU IN PERSON!!!
@bmvazquez1 @center4inquiry @neiltyson @MichaelEMann @CaulfieldTim @stevennovella @Evolutionistrue @kevinfolta @ChrisD_French @davidmcraney @rrrins @NBTiller Ha! Or the first. Depending on your perspective.
It might be the alphabet, or maybe I’m just more awesome than @neiltyson. Hard to say. 🤷♀️ Looking forward to #CSICon!!!
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