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The Endangered White Abalone – MostlyScience Webcast – 20/05/2018

Wes May 20, 2018

In this Episode of MostlyScience, Wes is joined by Dr. Kristin Aquilino to learn all about the endangered sea snail known as the White Abalone. Kristin shares why these adorable little snails are so important in maintaining ...

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Critical Minds, Feature, Health

Funding Magic: Alternative Medicine

Dr. Christopher Haggarty-Weir September 20, 2013

One of the most alarming trends is the global rise in tax-payer funded magic, particularly in developed countries. No, this is not a joke, in nations such as Australia and America there has been an ...

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Critical Minds, Feature

Cognitive Biases and “Doing Your Own Research”, Part 2 – The Social Biases

Dr. Christopher Haggarty-Weir March 9, 2013

These prejudices are exhibited by all of us at some point, so whilst their elimination is arguably not possible, we should still aim to reduce our social bias.

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Critical Minds

Cognitive Biases and “Doing Your Own Research”, Part 1 – Decision Making, Belief and Behavioural Biases

Dr. Christopher Haggarty-Weir February 25, 2013

So after what seemed to be positive reception to my previous article on logical fallacies to look out for when doing your own research online, I wanted to follow up with another area that leads ...

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Critical Minds

Logical fallacies and you: What you need to know when “doing your own research”

Dr. Christopher Haggarty-Weir February 6, 2013

The internet has allowed unprecedented access to information, which on the whole, has been a marvelous thing. Gone are the days when

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