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Originally Posted by GGG
When dealing with the misinformed rationalism does not appear to work.
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Definitely there's a number of cognitive biases that actively work against it.
Reasoning with a 9/11 truther or a young earth creationist or a free energy from water believer rarely works. I mean I spent YEARS talking about making a cart that would go down wind faster than the wind, a guy built one and got it certified by the land sailing speed record organization whatever they were called, and people STILL thought it was a hoax.