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Simon Wells
Simon Wells

Simon Wells is an academic researching Argumentation Theory, Automated Reasoning, Intelligent Agents (IA) and MultiAgent Systems (MAS) all approached through a ludic lens.

He is particularly interested in how these tools can be usefully applied to critical literacy, security, gamification, and complex systems.

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Most of us experience that moment of having forgotten all of the good arguments that we need to respond to a given point raised during a discussion. Moments after conceding the point it all come flooding back, but too late. To the rescue comes the Skeptical Science iPhone app, well to the rescue of iPhoners anyway. This was covered over at the Boing and I quite liked this comment:

The thing is, there are a LOT of people out there who are just confused and want to know more and don't realize that the common critiques have been addressed by scientists...they're just not experts, or even wanna-be experts and they're a bit lost on things. This could help them

Sometimes people just take a side in an argument that fits with what they know, which might not be much. Once that position is taken it can be very difficult for them to change, especially if it might suggest some ignorance on their part. Tools like this app will at least provide one more way for people to be exposed to the common arguments against climate change and see that those arguments have generally already been thoroughly addressed.

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