I’m a huge fan of Dan Dennett’s online lectures. Reading a few comments here, and the first few paragraphs of the text I started to despair. I fear in his effor

I’m a huge fan of Dan Dennett’s online lectures. Reading a few comments here, and the first few paragraphs of the text I started to despair. I fear in his efforts to bring the reader into the piece, he is missing the current cultural climate. Brrr. Dennett’s lectures are very engaging, and I appreciate not being put to sleep on a topic I only tangentially engage with, and I hope someone who is not in his ‘ivory tower’ at Tufts mentions it to him. Though, fear not, for Dennett rights the ship. In fact he seems to speak directly to this community (and exchanges I had here recently about fake-science) with this passage: “A good statistician (which I am not) should scrutinize the many uses of statistics made by Henrich and his team. They are probably all sound but he would want them examined rigorously...” On point I should say.