If you don&#x27;t mind my interjecting..<p>Between link-sharing sites like this one, print and digital publications, and never ending ad campaigns masquerading as blogs and &quot;relate-to-me!&quot; emails, most of us are inundated with the specious ideas and arguments of people whose reliability can be difficult to assess. A simple heuristic is stop reading if the author appears to not be grounded in the empirical tradition. Which, unfortunately, most writers aren&#x27;t.