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The Skeptics Guide #858 - Dec 18 2021

The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe

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Is There a Cumulative Effect?

It doesn't argue against the cumulative effect of multiple things, says Carre. The whole can have emergent properties that are not present in each individual piece. It's like saying an atom is not alive, therefore nothing made of atoms can be alive. And so when you're looking at a whole an entity doing something, they go, but that part doesn't do that, so there's no way it could work. I wonder sometimes if the motivation behind it is, you know, obviously, like you were saying, sometimes it'sn't a denialist tactic. Ah, but i wonder also, sometimes if somebody is genuinely trying to understand a situation, but the problem is that they

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