Professors’ critical thinking working group at CSICon 2022.
Credit: Massimo Polidoro
While no scientific background is required to be a skeptic or to promote critical thinking, one would expect that having a science major and being exposed to the scientific method in academic life would lead to scientific thinking and make people less vulnerable to pseudoscience and unwarranted claims. Unfortunately, my experience as a college professor—and that of many of my colleagues—tells a different story.