KNOW… the Source [of what you know]!

Why I started a Quotes in Context blog.

Question everyone and everything. Even me.

Fact check everyone and everything. Even me.

When you say you’re thinking for yourself, make sure you’re thinking for yourself and not just parroting what somebody else has said.

There are so many BS conspiracy theories roaming around the globe right now it’s almost impossible to keep pace with them. What’s even more bizarre is a lot of the fascist power-hungry regimes are using the term fake news to refer to anybody who disagrees with them, which in essence means probably you’re telling the truth.

Below are FOUR of the most cognitively seductively categories of information we all need to be specifically skeptical of:

Half-truths. These are really hard because as we mentioned in the What if series, there is a thread or grain of partial truth to it that proponents are extrapolating to prove a very specific point that they want. Which means, they probably only gave you a really tiny piece of the information, usually only the information that is going to prove their point. Quite often a half-truth is taken from some sort of authority text or authority figure. So you need to go to the source and…