What steps do you take to check the veracity of a claim before you accept it as true?
Given all of the unavoidable cognitive biases that can cause us to reach premature, false conclusions on a subject, coupled with the fact that we’re pretty easy to influence and manipulate emotionally, what steps do you take to check the veracity of a claim before you accept it as true?
Also, what makes a source reliable?
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.First, I critically weigh the evidence pro and con based upon what I already understand about how the universe works (this includes things with an emotional base) to determine how much I need to investigate a claim. If I find the claim to be lacking in details of evidence, or the wording seems to be a bit off, perhaps both, I begin a search for corroborating and/or contrary evidence. To do this I use as many sources as I can find and further investigate the source of the sources.
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