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Not Born Yesterday by Hugo Mercier

Worker and Parasite

CHAPTER

The Earth Is Round

Like most counterintuitive ideas are. Reflective right so reflective again is like it doesn't really have any personal consequences for you to hold this belief. So I'm sure it's some level if you thought about it believing the world is round does actually have real consequences for you. But because we do like trust in scientists and authority figures and, you know, all these other all these other mechanisms mechanisms and cues that we use. You know we will eventually start to believe in things that are more scientific rather than less so. Maybe that's not a good thing or a bad thing it's just maybe the way things are.

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