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On Refusing Epistemic Interaction: Dealing with People Who Won't Accept Facts

I recently produced a piece or two on the ontology of abstracts and the epistemic barrier. But let's now get psychological. Go read them for the foundation. One thing that came up in conversation between two commenters is the idea of interacting with people who do not want

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The Sad Reality of (Right-Wing) Disinformation

The reaction of this woman in this fascinating video is so depressing... It is uncontrolled confirmation bias, backfire effect and cognitive dissonance all rolled into one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQO9upB7kx8& I'm not sure you can actually do anything about this because every action you

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Quote of the Day on Confirmation Bias

The following is a quote by Verbose Stoic, a regular commenter here with whom I often disagree but who substantiated his claims with detail and, well, substance. The sort of commenter I like - he probably does this because he has a blog of his own, and sometimes takes me

Putting the Trumpian Cognitive Dissonance to Bed

This is my second piece dealing with a comment from someone I know on Facebook. Yesterday, I went to town on the claims that, compared to Trump, Biden is a racist crook. This seemed to be one of the bases of this person's support for Trump against Biden.

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Creationism, science denialism and other childhood indoctrination and intellectual abuse

Having attended a fascinating talk by James Williams (a science educator) last night at Portsmouth Skeptics in the Pub, I thought I would post about it. The talk was called Insidious Creationism and concerned Creationism within an educational context.

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Skeptical about meditation

So, on reading some work by fellow SINner David Osorio over at Avant Garde, I was alerted to this article by John Horgan about whether or not research supports benefits of meditation or not. It seems that it doesn't, really.