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Use The Skeptic's Dictionary in critical thinking courses

The Skeptic's Dictionary has 31 topics in Logic and Perception, 37 topics in Science and Philosophy, and 71 entries on Pseudoscience

For example,

Hindrances to critical thinking

• apophenia
• communal reinforcement
• confirmation bias
• pareidolia
• selective thinking
• self-deception
• wishful thinking

Fallacies

• appeal to authority
• argument to ignorance
• begging the question
• clustering illusion
• Concorde or sunk-cost fallacy
• divine fallacy
• gambler's fallacy
• post hoc fallacy
• pragmatic fallacy
• the regressive fallacy
• Texas-sharpshooter fallacy

Causal Reasoning

• control group study
• ideomotor effect
• lunar effects
• testimonials

Science

• ad hoc hypothesis
• anomalies
• Blondlot and N-rays
• law of truly large numbers
• nocebo effect
• Occam's razor
• pathological science
• placebo effect
• positive-outcome bias
• retrospective falsification
• science
• scientism
• shoehorning

Other topics of interest for a critical thinking course:

• Barnum or Forer effect 
• cold reading 
• confabulation

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