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Debunking Race Pseudoscience

The Pseudoscientific Fabrications of Mass Murderer Dylann Roof

December 22, 2016May 5, 2018 emilskeptic abusing genetics, black-and-white thinking, confirmation bias, Dylann Roof, google university, neutralization techniques, not as bad as, out-group homogeneity bias, relative privation, scientific skepticism, search engine algorithms

Dylann Roof was recently convicted on all 33 federal charges (including hate crime) after murdering nine people by shooting 70

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How to Avoid Falling for Bullshit on the Internet

January 23, 2016October 7, 2017 emilskeptic Alex Jones, bias, bullshit, confirmation bias, critical thinking, food babe, narrative, Natural News, skeptic, snopes

At least try to do some basic fact-checking…

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How Online Casinos Deceive You Into Playing

September 19, 2015March 8, 2023 emilskeptic base rate fallacy, betting systems, bonus, casino marketing, casino television advertisement, cognitive biases, confirmation bias, gambler's ruin, gambler’s fallacy, irrational escalation, martingale, matched deposits, negative expected value, online casino, online casinos, the hot hand fallacy, wishful thinking. free spins

Exposing the deceptive tricks online casinos use to keep you playing.

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Debunking Bad Science Journalism Debunking Misuse of Statistics

Investigative Skepticism Versus the Mass Media

October 13, 2013March 19, 2016 emilskeptic confidence interval, confirmation bias, effect size, Flashback, Gunilla Krantz, investigative skepticism, relationship violence against men, response rate, single-study fallacy

We are constantly being bombarded with messages from newspapers, television, blogs and social media sites like Facebook and Twitter about

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The Criminal Profiling Deception

July 23, 2013August 6, 2020 emilskeptic anecdotal evidence, barnum effect, cherry-picking, confirmation bias, criminal profilers, criminala profiling, profiling, trait theory, typologies

The chilling facts about the scientific flaws of criminal profiling.

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