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#70 Scott Adams: Avoiding Loserthink

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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Is He Primed to See Something?

The mc martin school children case? No, what is that? So i forget when this was. Might have been the eighties, but i couldn't be wrong about that. That's the most famous case where people who are primed will see just fantastical things. They can see that hed primed to see something. Now if he had never been primed to see it, that would be more evidence than it might be real phenomenon. But when he says, without prompting somebody's asking me if i'm seeing u f o all the time. And is somebody that matters. His mother in law probably matters a lot. He was primed. So his testimony actually would be worth exactly zero because

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