Ep203 - Steven Pinker | Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters
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I'm a Victim of Myrergerator Ia
Andao: We are all a vulnerable to these primitive intuitions, these forms of your magic and superstition. But it's only if you've undergone the kind of, ah, deep programming from modern science that you can repress these first impulses. People who do accept the scientifically valid a conclusion often ar out to lunch when it comes to the science. Ty think, oh, doesn't global warming is that because were their plastic straws in the ocean or the ozone hole or toxic wast dumps? They have this vague notion of green versus polluted. The farther you are to the right, the more you denyte the seriousness of climate change.
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