Filter It Through a Brain Cell
Can you recognize bad thinking, manipulative advertising and tricky arguments when you see them?
How about your kids - how will they know whether the memes they're seeing on social media are really true?
Critical thinking is the most important skill you can have when you’re living in a world that seems to have lost its mind.
Everyone out there is trying to tell you WHAT to think, I want to teach you HOW to think!
In every episode, I’m exposing the logical fallacies & cognitive biases being used by advertisers, politicians, influencers, news outlets, social media memes, and maybe even your own best friend.
Warning: listening to this podcast will cause you to see bad thinking everywhere!
Welcome to the Filter It Through a Brain Cell Podcast!
I'm a homeschooling mama who realized we need to equip the next generation to be able to discern truth from lies and created this podcast with short, fun episodes that you can play in the car with your teens and have a fun discussion about what you've learned!
NOTE: While you're certainly welcome to listen to this podcast in any order, I recommend listening in sequential order starting with Episode 1. I think you'll get more out of it that way!
Critical Thinking for teens
Homeschool curriculum
Podcast for teens
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 9 minutes
- Episodes
- 309
- Years Active
- 2022 - 2025
49. For Your Own Good (Manipulation mini-series: Part 4)
Sometimes people tell you to do things and it really is because they have your best interests at heart...but sometimes, they're doing to help themselves, not you.
Here's how to tell the difference.
J…
48. Snob Appeal (Manipulation mini-series: Part 3)
Companies who sell things that appeal to a desire to be "better than" are selling a false image.
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled by it!
Learn more about Crazy Thinkers: w…
47. False Urgency (Manipulation mini-series: Part 2)
Don't let a fake sense of urgency make you do something you don't really want to do!
Here's how to recognize it.
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled by it!
Learn more about C…
46. Gaslighting (Manipulation mini-series: Part 1)
Gaslighting is one way others make you think you're crazy.
Join me for Part 1 of the Manipulation mini-series!
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled by it!
Learn more about Cra…
45. The Gambler's Fallacy
When you try to assign probability to a random event, you'll inevitably commit this fallacy!
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled by it!
Learn more about Crazy Thinkers: www.f…
44. The Anecdotal Fallacy
Does one experience mean something is always true?
It happens to a lot of us...here's how to be on the look-out for this common mistake!
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled b…
43. The Burden of Proof Fallacy
When you make a claim, it's your responsibility to back it up!
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled by it!
Learn more about Crazy Thinkers: www.filteritthroughabraincell.com/c…
42. The Fallacy of Accent
When you emphasize the wrong word in a sentence, it can totally change the meaning of the whole sentence.
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled by it!
Learn more about Crazy Th…
41. The Ambiguity Fallacy
When phrases or sentences are vague & confusing, it leads to a lot of arguments and misunderstanding. Here's what to do.
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled by it!
Learn more…
40. The No True Scotsman Fallacy
When someone doesn't want to change their belief about a group of people or things, they'll often try to dismiss the new information rather than change their belief.
I'll tell you why in today's epis…
39. The Personal Incredulity Fallacy
Just because you can't believe it, doesn't mean it isn't true!
And just because you don't understand it, doesn't mean it isn't false.
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled by i…
38. The Hasty Generalization Fallacy
Ever heard of jumping to conclusions? Well, this is the more formal name for it.
Learn the specifics of what makes this a fallacy.
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled by it!
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37. 6 simple ways to help your teen (and you!) learn to think for themselves
Here are 6 super practical ways you can help your teen learn to think better! And the bonus is, you'll learn to think better in the process.
The reality is, just learning about the fallacies isn't en…
36. The Whole to Part Fallacy
Today, we'll discuss the opposite of the Whole-to-Part Fallacy and learn why someone can be on the champion team and yet just be a mediocre player.
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't g…
35. The Part to Whole Fallacy
Are all Democrats alike? All Republicans? Just because one believes a certain thing, does that automatically mean all of them do?
Here's why we can't make sweeping generalizations.
When you can recog…
34. 10 questions to help you think about online drama (the Chris Rock & Will Smith debacle)
There is no shortage of drama online, for sure. And there's no shortage of people who have opinions about that drama and would love nothing more than to tell you what they want you to think or feel a…
33. The Weak Analogy Fallacy
Just because two things are *somewhat* similar, beware when someone tries to create too much connection between the two!
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled by it!
Want to te…
32. The Middle Ground Fallacy
Is meeting in the middle to compromise always the best choice?
When you can recognize the foolishness, you won't get fooled by it!
Want to test yourself on how well you can recognize fallacies in rea…
31. The Fallacy Fallacy
Bad reasoning always leads to wrong conclusions, right?....or does it???
Be careful, this is the fallacy you're most likely to commit yourself once you start learning about critical thinking!
When yo…
30. The Appeal to Heaven Fallacy
Ooh, this one is a tricky one if you don't know how to recognize it!
And it's tricky because there are some Appeals to Heaven that are proper and some that are faulty.
The hard part, sometimes, is te…