The danger of being swamped by confident idiots
The Trump phenomenon and the influence of One Nation on local politics highlight how irrational beliefs seem to be shaping world events to a …
This is why you will lose your argument
So the Great Barrier Reef has not been listed as endangered by UNESCO. And same-sex marriage is high on the national agenda. Care to …
How an approach to science helps define the political centre
There was a bit of talk over the last election cycle, expressed in the usual language of political left and right, about returning the …
Investment and cognitive bias
Cognitive fallacies can damage that most iconic of self-interested activities: investing.
Peter Ellerton on Brandis’s logical fallacies
RSA committee member Peter Ellerton explains why Australia’s top lawmaker has got it wrong. Brandis complains that “climate change denialists are being ‘excluded from …
On Reason and Reasoning
Brilliant new video on Reason by Steven Pinker and Rebecca Newberger Goldstein – http://on.ted.com/g06r5
Where is the proof in pseudoscience?
RSA committee member Peter Ellerton explains what constitutes knowledge – put simply, it’s when it’s so ‘settled’ that it’s used to find more knowledge …
What you think is right may actually be wrong
RSA Committee member Peter Ellerton explains that how we think we think is not actually how we think.