How To Debunk a Myth (Misinformation)

This seems really useful.  I bet it could work in nearly any grade …

How To: Debunk a myth

via Boing Boing by Maggie Koerth-Baker on 29/11/11

http://boingboing.net/2011/11/29/how-to-debunk-a-myth.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+boingboing%2FiBag+%28Boing+Boing%29

“I’m going to bookmark The Debunking Handbook, a quick-read pdf with all sorts of great advice for effectively countering misinformation. It’s put together by the same people behind Skeptical Science, my go-to source for detailed, easy-to-understand debunkings of pretty much every climate-science-related myth you can rattle off.”

The Debunking Handbook

http://www.skepticalscience.com/docs/Debunking_Handbook.pdf

Skeptical Science

http://www.skepticalscience.com/

This goes beyond the usual Snopes panacea and it is the silly season given the election hype gripping the US with the media spouting myths and facts interchangeably. It’s a timely look at the issue and the skills everyone needs to know and be taught.

Stephen