When it comes to certain politicized issues, theyy are particular issues can become badges of identity for political tribes or coalitions. There are certain zones in which we we fall back on our intuitions such as that living things contain some kind of essence that gives them their form and powers. That makes us receptive to homeopathy, to all kinds of quack cures. We we unlearn some of primitive intuitions if we vest some kind of trust in the scientific establishment. If you believe something, you've got to be able to explain why you believe it. And a where our natural state is ignorance about everything, we ideally have institutions that have built in checksand balances with empirical testing.

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