"It is important to be able to evaluate what you read and hear. If you did not sort the credible from the incredible, the serious from the playful, the essential from the nonessential, the world would be full of conflicting and bewildering messages. Critical thinking enables you to distinguish between fact and opinion and distinguish sound from faulty reasoning."...............
http://www.butte.edu/departments/cas/tipsheets/thinking/fallacies.html
https://www.physics.smu.edu/pseudo/Propaganda/alldevices.html
http://www.butte.edu/departments/cas/tipsheets/thinking/fallacies.html
https://www.physics.smu.edu/pseudo/Propaganda/alldevices.html