Intellectual Razors

Razors - Weapons of intellectual self-defense in the age of bullshit

• Occam's Razor
• The simplest explanation is usually the right one.
• Hitchens' Razor
• That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.
• Popper's Razor
• If it can't be tested; if it can't be disproven; it's not actual science.
• Hanlon's Razor
• Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity.
• Newton's Razor
• If it can't be settled by expirement it isn't worth debating.
• Sagan's Razor
• Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.