Cornerstones of Scientific Thinking - check!

So far we have determined established three important cornerstones of scientific thinking:

A Scientific Toolbox:

Today we put a fourth cornerstone in place by identifying a set of positive habits of mind that rational evaluators of truth claims (scientists included) should employ. These are organized around ideas found in Thomas Kida's Don't Believe Everything You Think but draw on a number of sources, particularly The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan). Specific tools that you should learn are numbered. We group them for you under general headings: