Uncle Dudley’s Concise Guide to Critical Thinking
1. Who is telling me this?
2. How does he or she know this?
3. Given #1 and #2, is it possible that he or she is wrong?
4. If the answer to #3 is “yes”, find another, unrelated source.
5. Repeat until the answer to #3 is very, very unlikely.
(Until process is complete, assume baloney)