Alison Head and John Wihbey\u2019s article \u201cThe Importance of Truth Workers in an Era of Factual Recession.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skeptic magazine recently shared the Baloney-Detection Kit infographic below. I would challenge P. Z. Myers and Jerry Coyne to apply it to the mythicist bunk that they so gullibly embrace and promulgate. See also Paul Braterman\u2019s recent article on the limits of logic, and Alison Head and John Wihbey\u2019s article \u201cThe Importance of Truth Workers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":136,"featured_media":40331,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,64],"tags":[14685,1601,14687,14688,5662,5677,14686,14312,7853,8592,11376,11379],"class_list":["post-40306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-information-literacy","category-mythicism","tag-baloney","tag-carl-sagan","tag-detection","tag-inforgraphic","tag-jerry-coyne","tag-jesus","tag-kit","tag-michael-shermer","tag-mythicism","tag-p-z-myers","tag-skeptic","tag-skepticism"],"yoast_head":"\n
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