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Paul Graham has a wonderful essay online, reading time approximately 10 minutes: Lies We Tell Kids
(The essay was brought to my notice via overcomingbias.com)
Some quotes:
This sentence is gold:
The truth is common property. You can’t distinguish your group by doing things that are rational, and believing things that are true. If you want to set [...]

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This is so scary. (This is in the U.S. Senate, not somewhere in a backwater countryside. These people decide over war and peace).
YouTube - Christian extremists disrupt Hindu Senate invocation

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Nice and controversial: the Pinker List on “taboo” questions and some remarks by Gelman:
What is a taboo question?
I think these questions (and others) must be asked and discussed in free societies.

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Here some more links devoted to rational thinking, which I found on the site mentioned in the previous post and which are simply excellent:
Chance Welcome Page
Fallacy Files
Argument Mapping Tutorials

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