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Fine debunking tape teaches critical thinking
This excellent Nova program takes an interesting "mystery" - the supposed disappearence of ships and planes from a region in the Atlantic called the Bermuda Triangle - and examines many of the more famous cases, which some writers claim are "inexplicable." In each case it turns out other information exists not reffered to by the Bermuda Triangle writers, information which every time points to a rational, natural explanation for the "disappearences" - such as bad weather, pilot confusion, even completely fictional ships and planes that never existed in the first place. [My favourite was a yacht that had supposedly disappeared in fine weather that had, in fact, "disappeared in the worst winter storm in Florida's history!"]

The best part of this film is how it teaches to young people (and old people), in a non-condescending way, the basics of critical thinking. Such as asking "What does it mean?" to any given statement, asking "Are there other interpretations available?" or "Is the evidence complete {or even, any good]?"

This makes a fine video to give to young people who are interested in the Triangle or other such phenomena (alien abduction, etc), and can help them to understand that just because something gets printed in a book or is seen on TV, doesn't mean it's true, and that there might be reasons for writing such books other than a real mystery to solve (such as making money out of decent but unsuspecting people). He or she will also get to see a few charlatans - Triangle "experts" - shown up on camera, when the Nova people present evidence to these "experts" which the experts either don't know about or have withheld, explanations that offer a much simpler, natural reason for the disappearence of craft (like raging hurricanes).

A good companion to this tape is Lawrence Kushches' book, *The Bermuda Triangle Mystery Solved* which has a similar debunking theme , again with fascinating and satisfying results. Another good book is Carl Sagan's *The Demon Haunted World* which looks into the many superstitious or irrational beliefs people hold (alien abduction, the face on mars) and asks why it is important for people to believe in these things, and what we can do as a society to promote critical thinking - a fascinating book which is non-condescending yet rational throughout.