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I also like that he picks on Tyson... not because I don't like Tyson, but because it's important to point out that these are universal human cognitive failings
by api 12y ago
I also like that he picks on Tyson... not because I don't like Tyson, but because it's important to point out that these are universal human cognitive failings that can befall anyone regardless of their belief system. Nobody who has a human brain is immune to the issues with that organ.
Too often "Skeptic movement" people tend to pick on religious believers, new agers, etc. as if obviously only those kinds of people fall prey to cognitive biases, illusions, logical fallacies, and other failure modes of the mind.
- DanBC 12y ago> Too often "Skeptic movement" people tend to pick on religious believers, new agers, etc. as if obviously only those kinds of people fall prey to cognitive biases, illusions, logical fallacies, and other failure modes of the mind. That was particularly annoying on the bad science forums. Especially since the whole point of the book was that people are subject to biases and well run research is the way to combat those biases.