My proposal is to place criticism within the scientific, or social-scientific, enterprise, rather than thinking about it as something coming from outside, or as something that is tacked on at the end.

I happened to come across this discussion in the comments of another blog a few years ago and it seemed worth repeating. The background is that sociologist Fabio Rojas explained why he didn’t find it useful to teach “critical thinking”; instead he teaches whatever aspects of criticism are relevant for the subject (in his case, …