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I`m disappointed that my attempts at discourse with Lubos Motl have blown up. Lubos, a Czech physicist/climate science blogger who responded to my post on Bret Stephens` exegesis in the WSJ of the psychology of the cult-like "belief" by the rest of the world in the "nonfalsifiable hypothesis"...
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[quote user="Stephen Forde"] [quote user="hjmaiere"]The interesting conversation is about why people want anthropogenic global warming to be true.[/quote] I don't think it has to do with tribal instincts at all. I think this whole global warming thing is just the latest embodiment...
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Here's a very interesting piece by Kristof at the New York Times about the reactions of Obama and Clinton supporters, and introducing cognitive science studies of why more information often polarizes, rather than bringing people together . Divided They Fall Simply, we are cognitively wired as tribal...