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If you live in an anti-vaxx family, the “10 year challenge” takes on a whole new meaning.

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an educational graphic about critical thinking for tumnblr

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The all important journalist questions, and then some.

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A missing line from Why:

“If you really want to be a critical reader, it turns out you have to step back one step further, and ask not just whether the author is telling the truth, but why he’s writing about this subject at all.“

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That is an excellent addition.

One other one for How: “how could this be exploited by someone acting in bad faith?” Closely coupled with a What: “what are the limits on the ill-effects this could produce?”

And a quick check for double standards: “who, or what, is the speaker not applying this principle to?”

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(This is also a great guide for interrogating historical documents such as, say, a constitution, a press release, a speech, a letter, a diary, a bill of rights, political policies, &c)

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I need to grab this and adapt this for my little filmmaking courses.

Because these questions are equally indispensible when YOU are the author of the script, the book, the story, the speech.

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Liana Finck in The New Yorker (July, 2018)

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Many people would rather put a persons genitals in their mouth than the brown parts of a banana

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Truth

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The GOP is the party of child abuse.

In just one six-week period, some 2,000 children were separated from their families, according to the Department of Homeland Security. Thousands are being held in makeshift shelters. The U.N. human rights chief called the policy “government-sanctioned child abuse.”