> We have all this quasi-religious cognitive machinery and thousands of years of oral culture behind the evolution of our brains. Maybe rational scientific deci

> We have all this quasi-religious cognitive machinery and thousands of years of oral culture behind the evolution of our brains. Maybe rational scientific decisonmaking is an anomaly in human history, or even worse, just another myth? Or maybe, we've made tremendous progress over the past thousands of years, and will continue to do so. Give it time. Extend your time horizon. In a few more millennia, we may be much more enlightened than we are today.