Atheists, Echo Chambers, and Dunning Kruger
6In this video we look at how easily misinformation can spread through the atheist community, and how that misinformation can be mistaken for knowledge and then defended. Some of that bad information is covered in the video, with a few examples. We also look at questions that can be asked when adopting new information from the atheist community, and into the atheist community, with a little critical thinking. We also give a little reminder that critical thinking isn't a spectator sport, it takes practice and thought.
Here is a livestream where we discuss the ideas mentioned in this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nC-pj...
TrolleyDave's Meet the AiRheads video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YFNPe...
Here are the links mentioned in the video to dispel some of the bad information that floats around the atheist community:
Atheism has multiple valid usages
Atheism: A Tale of Two Usages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-8XC...
Rationality Rules - The 100% REAL definition of Atheism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ftDSa...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Athesm and Agnosticism
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/at...
Evolution is something that is believed
Belief
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KQToh...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Belief
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/be...
Cambridge Dictionary definition of belief
https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dict...
Knowledge entails belief
Moore's Paradox
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moore%2...
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy - Analysis of Knowledge
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/kn...
Justified True Belief as Knowledge
https://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/P...
You can prove a negative
Stephen Law's blog discussing the claim 'you can't prove a negative'
http://stephenlaw.blogspot.com/2011/0...
Fact/Myth
http://factmyth.com/factoids/you-cant...
All of these are starting points for those concerned with critical analysis of these claims, and falsification of those claims. As always, we also encourage looking at the arguments both for and against.
Chapters
00:00 - Introduction
02:10 - The Dunning-Kruger Effect
04:17 - Echo Chambers
07:26 - It's Just One Word
09:31 - More Than Just One Word
11:07 - Critical Thinking
14:57 - Better Critical Thinking
18:38 - Conclusion
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