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Wednesday, August 07, 2002

What everyone should know
This is a great article and I especially like the fact that he touches on the accepted truths--or "common knowledge," as I think of them grudgingly--that people blindly accept without any proof at all. One example cited in this article, "If you sit in a draft, you'll catch a cold," is a classic demonstration of this type of thing, which can carry over to virtually any topic area: Food ("Eating fat will make you fat"), cars ("GMC trucks are better built than Chevy trucks"), software ("Linux is more secure than Windows"), computers ("Macs are as fast as PCs"), people ("Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus"), and so on. Getting over bogus yet accepted assumptions such as these should be a societal goal for everyone on this planet.

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