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Critical thinking is more than accepting information, it also involves reflexively analyzing, evaluating and questioning what is received. In a world filled with information and misinformation, this ability becomes even more crucial. Critical thinking also involves the ability to ask intelligent questions and seek informed answers through research. Developing this skill from an early age is crucial to promoting effective development in different areas of life. Scientific education in children is essential for their intellectual development and their ability to understand the world around them.

Teaching by competencies is an approach that allows students the true path of seeing the world from a real perspective. Unfortunately, in some subjects at Universities, children and young people are being indoctrinated in policies against free thinking about Medicine and the political issues involved in corruption. Another useful strategy is encouraging debate and discussion of different points of view. By exposing children to different opinions and perspectives, they are taught to think critically.

It allows them to consider multiple options and argue their own ideas coherently. In the fight against stress and fear based on indoctrination, we must take care of all the factors contemplated by Dr. Mercola to have good mitochondrial health that favors the neurogenesis of the hippocampus and mental resilience. Critical thinking is a metacognitive process, which is conceived as a combination of seven dimensions (i.e., truth-seeking, open-mindedness, analyticity, systematicity, self-confidence, curiosity and maturity.

Critical thinking should allow safer access to knowledge and be conceived as a set of skills that lead to the enrichment of cognitive life. Generalized doubt is paralyzing, generating stress, indecision and fear because it does not allow us to distinguish between situations in which we are really being deceived and situations in which the proposed information is justified on the basis of solid methodological criteria. The trust of information is built on a mental debate where it is necessary to be able to evaluate this information from the perspective of reliability. In this methodology the following questions have been proposed:--- 1) Is the information in question supported by convincing arguments?-- 2) Is it consistent with firmly established knowledge?-- 3) Is it supported by evidence?

Is this evidence of good quality, obtained through rigorous methods, allowing it to be as objective as possible?--- 4) Can the source of the information be clearly identified?--- 5) Can we rule out that the source has a conflict of interest in relation to the content, or that he acts with the desire to deceive us?-- 6) Is the source of information competent on the topic?-- The critical thinker needs evidence, to know the truth, to visualize possible explanations and also allows an openness towards ideas that may contradict one's beliefs, requiring resilience. In short, critical thinking requires curiosity, a desire to know the truth and also humility.

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