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Joining a Community of Readers, 6th Edition

Roberta Alexander
ISBN-10: 1-133-58682-1
ISBN-13: 978-1-133-58682-1
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    • The Skeptic’s Dictionary “provides definitions, arguments, and essays on subjects supernatural, occult, paranormal, and pseudo scientific.” The site probably contains hundreds of articles, many of them provocative and almost all of them interesting. As its name suggests, it casts a skeptical eye on controversial and undocumented claims, but its reports on the “state of the evidence” for such propositions are usually close to the mark.

    • The American Council on Science and Health is a source of interesting articles and reports on food, nutrition, health, and the environment, many of them intended to debunk health myths and deflate environmental scares.

    • Spinsanity is a much lauded independent political website offering an archive of articles that criticize commentators on both the left and the right, debunk media myths, and analyze “dishonest statements by politicians of all partisan stripes.”

    • The Propaganda Site examines several kinds of fallacies used in propaganda and supplies a small selection of real-world examples in the form of propaganda-filled short articles and extended passages. 

    • The New York Post’s opinion page features editorials, columnists, and letters to the editor—a decent source of short essays and letters to evaluate critically.

    • The letters section of Newsday.com is another place to find short arguments to evaluate. Usually publishes more daily letters online than does the New York Post.


    • Crank.net is a massive, categorized trove of links to all sorts of offbeat and fringe claims for analysis (and hilarity). The claims are quoted at length, linked to the source website, and rated (but usually not examined in detail). The ratings are provocative and funny but often not far from the truth. The scale for the ratings is fringe, bizarre,cranky, crankier, crankiest, and illucid. There are even links to anti-crank sites, devoted to “fighting crankism, debunking bad science, and promoting logic.”



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