The Skeptical Science web site works to debunk the critics of global warming, and works hard to do so. A new handbook put out by the site, The Debunking Handbook, is a veritable how-to guide to the practice of shooting down any misinformation, whether a global science issue, or your company’s belief that “password123” is a valid password.
In other words, you can glean some really helpful lessons from The Debunking Handbook that you can apply far beyond the endless back-and-forth of global warming discussion. Whatever misinformation you want to dispel—in an email, in a blog post, in a meeting—you need to, for example, avoid the Familiarity Backfire Effect, where mentioning the misinformation specifically only lends to people becoming more familiar with that myth. via Lifehacker
Check out the PDF of The Debunking Handbook right here
