Because rationalism is more about not taking avoidable losses by frankly being stupid than producing outliers by doing something normally stupid or crazy that p

Because rationalism is more about not taking avoidable losses by frankly being stupid than producing outliers by doing something normally stupid or crazy that pays off and get noticed. Nobody pays attention to the 999 times someone prays for rain and fails but the 1 time it does and it called "working a miracle". That sort of selection bias is in play here but worse as they ignore the background yields of regularly applied rationalism. Not to mention the projection involved - "success" is easy to come by if you have a crowd of rubes paying for what they want to believe but rationalism doesn't offer anything with such popular appeal directly. Really the whole article is anti-intellectualism fallacies strung together in a "If where the rays of the sun don't create gold why aren't you rich!" style fallacious retort.