This course was taught at Southern Methodist University.
Excerpt from Syllabus
This course will provide students with an understanding of the scientific method sufficient to detect pseudoscience in its many guises: paranormal phenomena, free-energy devices, alternative medicine, intelligent design creationism, and many others. Students will learn to think critically and to question outlandish claims, hype, and outright BS. Students’ writing will improve and they will be able to distinguish credible sources of information from nonsense; students will become intelligent consumers of information. Students should expect to do a lot of reading, writing, and, most of all, thinking.
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Topics addressed: astrology • coincidences/synchronicity/numerology • critical thinking and skepticism • frauds and hoaxes • near-death and out-of-body experiences
Resource type: syllabi
Academic discipline: chemistry and/or physics • freshman foundation and general education
Academic level: college and university
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Resource type: syllabi
Academic discipline: chemistry and/or physics • freshman foundation and general education
Academic level: college and university
No, no, no! You keep appealing to “The Scientific Method” but nowhere have I found just what i is. Sure, you cite snatches of it but so far I’ve only found references to what it has found or argued but not WHAT it is.
I’m 84 and running out of patience.