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Education and reasoning as immunization against bullshit
Starting in 2017, University of Washington biologist Carl Bergstrom and professor Jevin West began a college course on "Calling Bullshit: Data Reasoning in a Digital World". They then launched the Calling Bullshit website where you can find their course syllabus, book, videos, case studies, and more.[19] All of their lectures for the course are posted on Youtube and available for all to access[20]. In 2020, they published a book titled “Calling Bullshit: The Art of Skepticism in a Data-Driven World”[21]. Since the launch of their college course, “Calling Bullshit” has become an increasingly popular topic and is now a developed course in several other Universities like, for example, the University of Montana[22]. The course has also been featured in many news publications such as “The New Yorker, SFGATE, Forbes, and more”[23].

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19. Calling bullshit: Data reasoning in a Digital World. . (n.d.). https://callingbullshit.org/index.html

20. YouTube. (2017, April 15). Calling bullshit 1.1: Introduction to bullshit. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2OtU5vlR0k&list=PLPnZfvKID1Sje5jWxt-4CSZD7bUI4gSPS

21. Bergstrom, Carl T.; West, Jevin D. (2020). Calling bullshit : the art of skepticism in a data-driven world. New York. ISBN 978-0-525-50918-9. OCLC 1127668193.

22. UM course teaches students how to cut the B.S. out of B.S. University of Montana. (n.d.). https://www.umt.edu/news/2023/09/090523bull.php

23. Curiocity. (2021b, November 29). The University of Washington has a real class on “calling bullsh*t.” https://curiocity.com/you-can-take-a-real-class-called-calling-bullsht-at-the-university-of-washington/

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Evaluating Bullshit

The article "Bullshit", discussed the meaning behind the word bullshit and different theories/concepts on the analysis of bullshit. The article defines bullshit as a "slang term and a profanity which means nonsense". One of the concept's was by Harry Frankfurt in his essay "On Bullshit", he describes bullshit as a type of untruthfulness separate from lying. The article also explores David Graeber's theory, Brandolini's law and the "Bullshit Receptivity Scale" by Dr. Goradn Pennycook.

In his essay On Bullshit (originally written in 1986, and published as a monograph in 2005), philosopher Harry Frankfurt of Princeton University characterizes bullshit as a form of falsehood distinct from lying. Frankfurt compares the word “humbug” to “bullshit”- with the definition of humbug meaning a misleading portrayal that is most likely false. The liar, Frankfurt holds, knows and cares about the truth, but deliberately sets out to mislead instead of telling the truth. The "bullshitter", on the other hand, does not care about the truth and is only seeking "to manipulate the opinions and the attitudes of those to whom they speak":