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The Natural Selection Bias in Favor of Fudgey Thinking
A commenter named Teetime pointed out that bad ideas stated clearly are easy targets to decimate, but bad ideas camouflaged in fluffiness are harder to spot. This is true in other areas as well, if our listeners go to our blog, they'll see several entries scattered here and there on postmodernism, for instance. The more the idea is couched in fuzzy terms and in terms that are difficult to pin down, the more it becomes difficult to actually mount a reasonable criticism.