Thinking & Personal Effectiveness · Critical Thinking
A topic within Critical Thinking, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Thinking & Personal Effectiveness.
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Carl Sagan
Argues that wonder and scepticism are not opposed but must operate together, since wonder without scepticism accepts any claim that delights while scepticism without wonder forecloses genuine discovery.
link checked 17 Sept 2026Michael Shermer
Offers a checklist of questions, how reliable is the source, has the claim been verified independently, does it fit with what is already known, for telling a well-supported claim apart from a merely plausible one.
link checked 17 Sept 2026