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After a week of far-right rioting fuelled by online misinformation, the British government is to change the school curriculum so English schoolchildren are taught critical thinking skills to tackle it (www.telegraph.co.uk)
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[–] peto@lemm.ee 3 points 11 months ago

Motivated reasoning is a hell of a drug.