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Critical Thinking Skills / Fallacies

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5 Sections
28 Lessons
25 Minutes

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Introduction
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- 1.1
  Introduction
Learning objectives
1
- 2.1
  Learning objectives
Fallacy literacy training
15
Critical thinking skills: The 5 techniques of sciences denial by John Cook
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Resources
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- 5.1
  Resources

Critical thinking skills: The 5 techniques of sciences denial by John Cook 10/10

“The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.” Mr. Trump argued.

Explanation: A secret plot that most of us know nothing about. Those who believe they have access to a truth hidden from the majority. This is a conspiracy theory as it is claiming that climate change is an invention to distort the world economy.

Extracted from: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/19/world/asia/china-trump-climate-change.html

Critical thinking skills: The 5 techniques of sciences denial by John Cook 9/10

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