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Critical Thinking about New Age Ideas

64 New Age Topics Covered

For critical evaluation of New Age topics The Skeptic's Dictionary has 31 topics in Logic and Perception and 37 topics in Science and Philosophy

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Sample lesson: For a topic such as New Age ideas about "energy" medicine one might

• Begin with the entries on energy and related notions such as chi, prana, and vitalism;

• Move on to something specific like therapeutic touch (where there is a discussion of quantum quackery) and aura therapy;

• Next, read the entries on confirmation bias, communal reinforcement, shoehorning, self-deception, and wishful thinking;

• Conclude with a discussion of anecdotal evidence and why scientists design control group studies.

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