There is always more capacity for more critical thinking. Open Culture presents Carl Sagan’s boloney detection kit — how to detect pseudoscience — and the video they link is quite good. link.
From the article:
[From Carl Sagan] “Like all tools, the baloney detection kit can be misused, applied out of context, or even employed as a rote alternative to thinking… But applied judiciously, it can make all the difference in the world — not least in evaluating our own arguments before we present them to others… this kit is not some perfect solution to the world’s problems, but as it’s been utilized over the last few centuries… it has enabled us to create technological innovations and useful explanatory models of our world more quickly and effectively than ever before.” The walls of baloney may always be closing in on humanity, but if you follow Sagan’s advice, you can at least give yourself some breathing room.