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HELPING TO REMOVE BIASED THINKING A fundamental rule of scientific thinking, unknown to most people, which helps to remove biases ( a major cause for wrong reasoning and bad science ) is: Whenever you thought of an explanation that you fell in love for it, you should also think what if it is something else ?. You should consider all other possible elses. Do not try to explain something just with you preferred ( and possibly biased ) explanation. Try to find all alternative plausible explanations starting with those based on known solid scientific facts. Only when those more plausible explanations fail in logical coherence and/or on well designed tests/experiments, resort to lesser probable hypotheses. It is amazing the number of people who even get a university diploma and are totally ignorant of this crucial scientific rule. Efstratios Filippidis
Posted on: Wed, 01 Oct 2014 06:50:18 +0000

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