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CFIC Town Hall Meeting #7 – Are the New Ways We Communicate and Share Information, Changing Us, Our Society, Our Human Civilization?

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Town Hall: November 16, 2025, 8pm EDT Yuval Harari argues that Homo Sapiens’ biggest advantage is not our brain power but the fact that we know how to cooperate on a large scale. Language and sharing of information, data, and experiences are, of course, critical prerequisites for cooperation. In the next Town-Hall meeting we will discuss  the impact…

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CFI Community, critical links, critical thinking, Event, humanism

Research before you Research – Predatory Journals

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[This article initially appeared in the March 2018 edition of Critical Links, and is updated here with corrections and additional information.] Committed skeptics are often in the habit of viewing the content of Facebook pages and Internet publications with a solid level of skepticism, and many us have become practiced at detecting obviously bogus news…

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critical thinking, Education, Science, Science Literacy