WELCOME TO SKEPTICISM 101! The Skeptical Studies Curriculum Resource Center
THE SKEPTICAL STUDIES CURRICULUM RESOURCE CENTER is a comprehensive, free repository of resources for teaching students how to think skeptically. This Center contains an ever-growing selection of books, reading lists, course syllabi, in-class exercises, PowerPoint presentations, student projects, papers, and videos that you may download and use in your own classes. Lessons in these resources include:
- what science is, how it differs from pseudoscience, and why it matters
- the scientific method and how to use it to investigate and conduct skeptical analyses of extraordinary claims
- how to construct effective arguments and rhetorical strategies
- how to effectively use presentations and papers to present an argument
- reason, logic, and skeptical analysis
- the psychology of belief
- how ideas are presented within academia
- how peer review works
- and much more…
